“The earliest Syriac manuscript ever found dates to 412 CE and is one of the most ancient codes, or manuscripts in the form of a book, ever discovered,” he added, speaking with The Times of ...

For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities have used Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, as their liturgical and cultural language. Over the centuries, they produced an extensive corpus of ...

It's one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century. Hidden in caves in the desert, the Dead Sea Scrolls were identified as ancient Jewish manuscripts—the only known surviving ...

The Shapira Scroll, an ancient manuscript first discovered in 1883 and dismissed as fake is 'actually the oldest known Biblical script', an expert claims. Jerusalem antiquities dealer Moses ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are even older than we thought, according to a new AI analysis by scientists at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Ancient Syriac manuscript from the private collection of Raad Abdul-Ahed from Dohuk, northern Iraq, as photographed in 2015. (AP/Bram Janssen) For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities ...

They found that it could predict the age of manuscripts just from the writing style with an uncertainty of some 30 years. Scientists then used the AI to date roughly one thousand Dead Sea manuscripts.

Dead Sea Scrolls mystery deepens as AI finds manuscripts to be much older than thought. Findings also impact our understanding of ancient political developments in Eastern Mediterranean ...