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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, ...
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 ...
KSL

In the lowest place on Earth, a sea is rapidly dying — and no one can agree how to save it

The Dead Sea sits where Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian land meet and is a place of extremes. It's the lowest point on the ...
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., ...