A new study reveals the Dead Sea Scrolls may be older than believed, with AI analysis of handwriting styles and radiocarbon dating pushing many manuscripts back to 200 B.C.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most remarkable and revolutionary archeological discoveries ever made. Researchers uncovered the first documents within the West Bank’s Qumrum Caves in 1946, ...

These were the Dead Sea Scrolls, ... Additionally, the program estimated that the Dead Sea Scroll known as 4Q114, which contains parts of the Book of Daniel, was older than previously thought.

Eight newly installed Dead Sea Scrolls, including a rare manuscript outlining the beliefs and structure of the ancient Qumran ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls consist of around 1,000 manuscripts, according to DW. Some of the manuscripts appear to feature the oldest known copies of texts from the Hebrew Bible.

The scrolls currently posted on the Israel Museum’s website include the Great Isaiah Scroll, one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran in 1947, which is by far the largest and ...

A fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls is shown at the Israel Antiquities Authority laboratory in Jerusalem, June 2, 2020. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters) John J. Miller is joined by Jodi Magness of the ...

More about the Dead Sea Scrolls: an excerpt from Hershel Shanks' forthcoming book The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls; translations of the Community Rule and the War Scroll, with ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, ... The study claimed that the fragment of the Book of Daniel 8-11, which was thought to be dated to 160s BC, ...

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 ...

It was in 1947 that the first discoveries of the remarkable manuscripts, now commonly known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, ... In fact, there are parts of every book of the Old Testament, ...

Radiocarbon dating requires destroying small samples of the fragile scrolls. Normand Blouin / AFP via Getty Images. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he ...