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Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? Digital handwriting analysis and artificial intelligence offer new clues

One day during the second century BC, a scribe dipped a pen in ink and started writing pages and pages of Hebrew on leather parchment. "These Dead Sea Scrolls are so exciting because they're like a time machine," said Mladen Popovic, co-author of the study and a historian of ancient Jewish religion and culture at the University of Groninger in the Netherlands. "We were quite surprised to see such clear evidence for separation between the two halves," Dr Popovic said, adding that this kind of finding could help shed light on the "scribal culture" responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls. "This article is something of a new gold standard for the way we do palaeographical analysis," Dr Wearne said. And grouping together different scrolls based on who had written them, rather than on the basis of their content, could also lead to new, as-yet unimagined insights, Professor Popovic said.

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