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Hidden Dead Sea script finally cracked after decades of mystery

For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute in meaning. Now a researcher has finally cracked that hidden script, ...
Redlands Daily Facts

Dead Sea Scrolls will be theme of La Sierra University’s Archaeology Discovery Weekend

“The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible” is the theme for La Sierra University’s 15th annual Archaeology Discovery Weekend, with lectures, panel discussions and hands-on activities scheduled Saturday and ...
New York Post

Dead Sea Scrolls much older than previously thought, AI-based study finds

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 ...
Ars Technica

Are Dead Sea Scrolls older than we thought?

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 New York Times

Dead Sea Scrolls

A question about pieces of a manuscript found in 1883 that may or may not be authentic led me into The Times’s archive. By Jennifer Schuessler The finds, ranging from just a few millimeters to a ...