An ancient treasure trove of silver coins dating back 2,200 years found in a desert cave in Israel could add crucial new evidence to support a story of Jewish rebellion, archaeologists said Tuesday.

There was a dazzling moment of awe when I first discovered the Cave of the Blue Sun. I was just a teenager wandering around in the desert. Quite by accident I had been drawn to a pile of boulders that ...

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Dozens of fragments of a Dead Sea Scroll bearing biblical text have been found by archaeologists working in the Judean Desert, the Israeli government said Tuesday. The fragments are the first pieces ...

Tucked beneath the desert in southern Arizona is Kartchner Caverns, a maze of remote, largely uninhabited underground passages and caverns that are cloaked in perpetual darkness. But this seemingly ...

Hidden deep in the heart of New Mexico lies a frozen world that defies its desert surroundings. While temperatures outside soar under the summer sun, the Bandera Volcano Ice Cave remains a frigid 31°F ...