I have been working on the discovery of alternative scriptures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the process, I have learned a lot more than I ever knew about ancient movements ...

Newswise — Remote Latrine Reconfirms the Presence of Essene Sect at Qumran Ancient Parasites Show that Cleanliness May Have Been Next to Sickliness The Essenes, a strict ancient Jewish sect devoted to ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written, at least in part, by a sectarian group called the Essenes, according to nearly 200 textiles discovered in caves at Qumran, in the West Bank, where the ...

Recent bioarchaeological findings at the ancient Dead Sea settlement of Qumran confirm the existence of a strange communal latrine --located at a remote distance, conforming with extreme hygiene ...

An ancient Jewish sect showed such devotion to their definition of purity that they pursued bizarre toilet habits that left them riddled with parasites, say researchers who have discovered and dug up ...

Recently, Israeli paleopathologist Joseph Zias and American biblical scholar James Tabor claimed that primitive latrines they discovered close to the ancient city of Qumran confirm that Essenes had ...