Then, near it in 1947, a goat strayed into a cave, a Bedouin shepherd flung a stone into the dark cavern and the resulting clink against a pot prompted him to investigate. He emerged with the first of ...
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 ...
As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly and starkly. You move off gradually from [the] ... rolling hillside, through the ravines, ...
Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University’s School of Science have developed a computer tool that could facilitate the complex study of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls. The 2,000-year-old scrolls were ...
Two researchers from Tel Aviv University’s School of Computer Science have unveiled a new computational method that could transform the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The tool is designed to enable ...
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., ...
EVER SINCE the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s, debate has raged over their exact age. The scrolls, which contain the earliest surviving copies of books from the ...
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library held a media day on Wednesday, February 26, to watch the installation of a new group of Dead Sea Scrolls, including the famed 4Q57 Isaiah Scroll, a fragment of ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls—comprising more than 800 documents made of animal skin, papyrus and even forged copper—deepened our understanding of the Bible and shed light on the histories of Judaism and ...