Many of the manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls may be much older than previously thought, according to a new study that could transform our understanding of their Jewish and Christian origins.

In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he heard it strike pottery. Upon entering the cave, he found a jar filled with three well-preserved rolls of marked ...

“The implications are profound,” said Dr. Maruf Dhali, assistant professor of AI at Groningen and co‐author of the study. An international team led by the University of Groningen has combined ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls may be even older than researchers thought, according to a new study driven by an artificial intelligence (AI) model. A group of researchers from the Netherlands, Italy and ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are returning to American shores for the first time in nearly a decade. “Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition,” featuring scroll fragments from ancient Israel, including pieces of a ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls could be older than once thought, a new study suggests.According to Mladen Popović, lead author of the report published in PLOS One, the analysis used both traditional ...

An ancient inscription, found beneath the floor of an Israeli prison, hailed as "the greatest discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls", is named the earliest known declaration of Jesus as God. 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., ...

Gayle Anderson reports that for the first time, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library presents eight authentic Dead Sea Scrolls and more than 200 artifacts from the Second Temple period. This is the ...

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