Some Dead Sea Scrolls Older than Previously Thought, AI Analysis Suggests | Sci.News

Determining by means of paleography the chronology of ancient handwritten manuscripts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls is essential for reconstructing the evolution of ideas, but there is an almost complete lack of date-bearing manuscripts. To overcome this problem, an international team of scientists created an AI-based date-prediction model — named Enoch, after the Biblical figure — trained on the basis of 24 dated scroll samples.