When the En-Gedi scrolls were excavated from an ancient synagogue's Holy Ark in the 1970s, it was a bittersweet discovery for archaeologists. Though the texts provided further evidence for an ...

Ein Gedi, a great holiday destination, is an oasis of lush beauty in the Judean Desert along the shores of the Dead Sea. Shmuel Browns Published: Oct 4, 2009, 3:36 PM (GMT+2) ...

Excavations at the site of Ein Gedi, the largest oasis on the barren and rocky western shore of the Dead Sea, have revealed a village that persisted from the 7th century B.C. to the Byzantine period.

God allotted Ein Gedi to the tribe of Judah (Joshua 15:62), from which came David. David’s familiarity with the oasis and its caves allowed him to select hiding places from the jealous King Saul ...

Ein Gedi, a 7,000-acre nature ... and before the day was over Yoel had taken us to a site that made clear that the ancient inhabitants of the oasis considered it a blessed place.

Archeologists have further unlocked writings in the ancient En-Gedi scroll -- the first severely damaged, ink-based scroll to be unrolled and identified noninvasively. Through virtual unwrapping ...

This week I returned to Ein Gedi with my partner, who was born in Israel in the Sharon area, but it turns out that she is not familiar with this area. Full of excitement I returned to walk in ...

L’école indépendante et laïque Ein Gedi destinée aux enfants de 10-15 ans porteurs de trisomie 21 ouvrira ses portes en septembre. Elle cherche des fonds et des candidats.

But contents of the En-Gedi scroll were long thought to be lost forever, because it was destroyed in a fire in 600AD and was impossible to touch without dissolving into chunks of ash.

To virtually "unwrap" the En-Gedi scroll, Seales and his team began by taking a 3-dimensional volumetric scan of the damaged manuscript and creating digital cross-sections of the artifact.

The crumbling landscape near En Gedi, where dozens of sinkholes have made the old tourist village too dangerous to enter.(Foreign Correspondent: Eric Tlozek)For millennia the lake has drawn ...