But what has a jar in a desert cave to do with machine learning? A Bedouin shepherd who sought one of the limestone hills close to the Dead Sea in 1947 tossed a stone into a cave and heard it hit ...

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For decades, fragments from the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls were stowed away at the University of Manchester, deemed largely worthless. For decades, fragments from the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls were ...

What does a sacred text go through before it is turned into a book? The cliffs in the Judean Desert are made up of pale limestone and they look over the shore where the salt covers the ground and the ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text found in a desert cave and believed hidden during a Jewish ...

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 ...

“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 ...

JERUSALEM -- Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are up for sale, in tiny pieces. Nearly 70 years after the discovery of the world's oldest biblical manuscripts, the Palestinian family who originally sold ...

WASHINGTON -- D.C.’s Museum of the Bible made an announcement Monday about five of their artifacts kept at the museum: They’re fakes. The artifacts in question were fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists have announced dozens of newly discovered Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text. They were found in a desert cave and were believed hidden during a ...

From a warrior's tomb in Greece to a Dead Sea Scrolls cave, here are some of the biggest archaeological discoveries likely to come in 2018. Twenty-eight fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls that were ...

Israel has acquired a fragment of a Dead Sea Scroll containing portions of the Psalms and belonging to a larger scroll, part of which is owned by the Jordanian Government, it was disclosed here this ...