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Dead Sea Scrolls: AI reveals the 2,000-year-old texts were likely written by multiple scribes

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The Dead Sea Scrolls were most likely penned by multiple scribes who mirrored one another’s writing styles 2,000 years ago, AI-powered analysis has revealed. First found in 1946 in the Qumran Caves of the Judaean Desert, near the Dead Sea, the scrolls comprise some 972 ancient manuscripts in thousands of fragments. The texts were mainly … Read more

Dead Sea Scrolls ‘mended’ with DNA from animal skin manuscripts

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The Dead Sea Scrolls are being pieced back together using DNA ‘fingerprints’ lifted from the animal skins on which they were written some 2,000 years ago. The scrolls are a collection of more than 25,000 ancient manuscript fragments, among which can be found the oldest known copies of books of the Hebrew Bible. They were first … Read more