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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A precious ancient scarlet-red dye has been identified on 3,800-year-old textile fragments that were found in a desert ...

Archaeologists have discovered the 6,000-year-old skeleton of a child in the “Cave of Horrors” in Israel's Judaean Desert, alongside ancient Dead Sea scrolls and the world's ‘oldest basket’. The “Cave ...

Israeli archaeologists say the fragments are at least 2000 years old and were discovered in the Judaean Desert. The famous Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish religious manuscripts that were first ...

In the Judaean Desert near the Dead Sea, a mysterious pyramid structure and way station were uncovered. The excavation site contains all kinds of artifacts, from historical documents to weapons and ...

Sacred Mysteries: Christopher Howse is impressed by the 18 centuries of survival seen by a monastery in the Judaean desert The Cedron is called a brook in the Gospel of St John, when Jesus is betrayed ...