Judaean Desert

Left An 11×11 and a 12×12 Kohonen map of characters aleph and bet from the study. Each of the characters in the Kohonen maps are formed from multiple instances of similar characters (shown as the zoomed box with red lines). These maps are useful for chronological style development analysis.

AI advances in archaeology

Recently, researchers from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have used the latest in AI technology to study the Great Isaiah Scroll (known as 1QIsaa), an ancient manuscript dating to the 2nd century BC that is considered one of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

BELOW The intact woven basket uncovered by the project dates back some 10,500 years.

Discoveries in the desert

Since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s, the caves - which have preserved fragile objects like the scrolls – have been the target of looters.