The Dead Sea Scrolls Are Giving up Their Secrets—Except for a Single Copper Treasure Map

The Dead Sea Scrolls Are Giving up Their Secrets—Except for a Single Copper Treasure Map

A five-year international effort will analyze 250 scroll samples to determine where they were made. Bu the copper scroll—a cryptic map to a vast hidden fortune—is sitting this one out.

AI, chemistry research project aims to uncover origins of Dead Sea Scrolls

(JNS) — The Israel Antiquities Authority announced that it is joining an international, European Union-funded research project that will use artificial intelligence, chemical analysis and other advanced technologies to investigate one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls: where they were produced and copied. The five-year project, titled “Tracing Scribes and Scrolls,” has rece...