JERUSALEM (AP) — The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist's storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A scholar from the Netherlands used AI to determine that the Dead Sea Scrolls may be older than previously believed. The new AI model pairs ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, a new study claims. Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands utilized artificial intelligence to ...

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Nobody ever expected to find the Dead Sea Scrolls, especially in the place that they were found; the climate isn’t right for preservation of ancient parchment and papyrus. Yet, the amazing discovery ...

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Written more than 2,000 years ago, the scrolls are the oldest biblical documents found to this day. Fragments of every book in the Old Testament except Esther have been discovered among the 900 ...

In a basement laboratory of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, an X-ray scanner is pumping invisible beams into a clump of charred parchment leaves that looks as delicate as a long dead flower ...

An ancient Egyptian manuscript housed in the British Museum has reignited debate among biblical scholars and archaeologists over whether legends of ancient giants were rooted in historical encounters ...

Artificial intelligence is used to find out what some carbonized Herculaneum scrolls say. Reading the Herculaneum scrolls required multiple scientific steps that started with taking extremely ...

Dating ancient artifacts is very difficult. Experts have a number of techniques they can use to get close, but there are limitations that often can’t be overcome without additional information. That ...