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Projects like EduceLab‑Scrolls use supervised learning to align CT scans with spectral images, as part of models that can "see" writing that is invisible ... are adding massively to our understanding ...
The clay seal that still had a print on it may have belonged to Yeda‛yah, the son of a figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
Tucked away in storage at a Berlin museum, a modest wooden shrine had gone largely unstudied for decades. It looked ordinary ...
AI analysis of Dead Sea Scroll fragments suggests some of the ancient manuscripts are up to 100 years older than once thought.© Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images ...
After surviving the eruption\u00a0of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the nearly 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scrolls would crumble if anyone attempted to unroll them, and surviving pieces with writing ...
U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago.
When it comes to paper, ancient peoples were more innovative than is usually thought. In fact, researchers just discovered a new parchment-making tradition while studying the Dead Sea Scrolls ...
Archaeologists recovered thousands of fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls from 11 caves near the ancient settlement of Khirbat Qumran, in what is now the West Bank. - V. Giannella/De Agostini/Getty Images ...
World News AI reads text from famously inscrutable ancient scroll for the first time (CNN) — At first glance, the Herculaneum scrolls look unremarkable, like pieces of coal.
Archaeologists recovered thousands of fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls from 11 caves near the ancient settlement of Khirbat Qumran, in what is now the West Bank. V. Giannella/De Agostini/Getty Images ...