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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 ...

But what has a jar in a desert cave to do with machine learning? A Bedouin shepherd who sought one of the limestone hills ...

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 ...

“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 - The Museum of the Bible - a prominent new institution off the Mall in Washington, D.C., - announced Monday that it has removed five prized items once thought to be historical Dead Sea ...

WASHINGTON — The Museum of the Bible's latest exhibit, “Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition,” features the oldest copies of biblical fragments, and Matthias Walther, the museum’s chief marketing officer, ...

Last year, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, said five of its most valuable artifacts — once thought to be part of the historic Dead Sea Scrolls — were fake. Now the museum is facing a harder ...

It was 1947 when the original treasure trove of ancient documents was uncovered by Bedouin tribespeople in a cave in a desert cliff. The scraps of writing sparked an international sensation. Not only ...

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 ...

A four-year effort by Israeli archaeologists searched 500 caves near the Dead Sea. In addition to ancient parchments and papyri, they found an... Archaeologists Discover Additional Dead Sea Scroll ...