Bible

Above Among the discoveries made at Tal Ganoub Qasr al Agouz are several walls with inscriptions of biblical and early Christian texts. left The site is exceptionally well preserved, with many buildings still standing with their walls, and sometimes roofs,

World Archaeology
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Earliest Christian monastery found in Egypt

Inscriptions were also found on the walls of several buildings, with passages from biblical and early Christian texts written in Greek.

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.

Current Archaeology
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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.

Minerva
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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.