The Dead Sea is a paradoxical place. A large, terminal lake, not a sea, it lies at the lowest point on earth. The Jordan flows in, but no river flows out. It’s full of undrinkable water ...

A few years ago Ricardo Braz was scrolling through Instagram when he spotted a picture of a tiny island made of salt in the Dead Sea. He added it to his bucket list. In December the 24-year-old ...

Introduction Half a century has now passed since a bedouin shepherd discovered a long-hidden cache of scrolls in a cave in cliffs above the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. The details of that ...

As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly and starkly. You move off gradually from [the] ... rolling hillside, through the ...

The CEO of the Museum of the Bible in Washington hailed the mosaic as “the greatest discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls.” At the opening of the exhibition, he said: “We truly are among the ...