"[This] made it clear how deep and severe the phenomenon is." Researchers sound alarm after discovering 'warning signal' in ...

For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute in meaning. Now a researcher has finally cracked that hidden script, ...

The Dead Sea is among the most illustrious natural features in the Middle East. Dead Sea, which is also known as Yam HaMelach in Hebrew (Yam meaning sea and Melach meaning salt). It is the largest ...

University of Haifa analysis reveals a sharp rise in plastic accumulation originating from flash floods in Kidron Stream, ...

A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.

There’s something deeply romantic about the Dead Sea: legendary saltiness that lets you float effortlessly, ancient lore whispering from its shores, and the notion of floating in “the lowest place on ...

The dead sea scrolls amazed scholars with their remarkable similarity to later versions. But there were also subtle differences. For instance, one scroll expands on the book of Genesis: in Chapter 12, ...

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 ravines, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The highest point on Earth's surface is the top of Mount Everest, which towers more than 29,000 ...