For those travelers lured by the serenity of the desert, Ein Gedi is fed by an extraordinary, year-round spring that flows over two remarkable waterfalls. A short, easy hike leads to the falls at the ...

This nature reserve boasts dramatic scenery, spectacular waterfalls, and a sanctuary for wildlife unique to the area. ... For a challenge, continue to Ein Gedi Spring, ...

Enjoy a view of the nature reserve below, with its luxurious foliage and waterfalls. Further south a brown, tent-like covering tops remains from the Byzantine-era synagogue at Ein Gedi.

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 ...

My beloved to me is a spray of henna blooms from the vineyards of Ein Gedi (Song of Songs 1:14) Prior to our recent trip to the Dead Sea and Ein Gedi, we hadn’t visited the area in years.

Ein Gedi – A hiker’s paradise The Judean desert and the Dead Sea region offer a charming combination of geography, the natural world and pampering pleasure, and are great for a winter getaway.

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.

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 ...

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.

When it was discovered in Israel in 1970, the En-Gedi scroll was clearly in no shape to be read: It had been found in the Holy Ark of a Jewish community dating to around 700 B.C. and had burned ...