The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in the 1940s near Qumran, represent one of archaeology’s greatest finds. They include ancient biblical texts and religious writings dating back over 2,000 years, yet ...

June 7 (UPI) --The ancient Dead Sea Scrolls likely are much older than originally thought, a new artificial intelligence analysis suggests. The scrolls could be centuries older than initially thought, ...

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 ...

Since their discovery, the historically and biblically hugely important Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding of Jewish and Christian origins. However, while the general date of the ...

Over the years, scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls have analyzed the ancient parchments with various methods: for example, X-rays, multispectral imaging, “virtual unfolding,” and paleography, i.e., ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written decades — or even centuries — earlier than scholars previously thought, according to a revolutionary study that merges traditional scholarship with ...