An AI program trained to study the handwriting styles of ancient manuscripts suggests that many of the dead sea scrolls can be older than the pre -thought, as reported. A study published in PLOS One Journal on Wednesday,
Studies are the latest entry in a new era of antiquity studies in which researchers use AI using AI that reveals the mysteries written on Freud and Crumpling scroll.
The new method connects AI, radiocarbon dating, and handwriting analysis to more accurate estimates for the age of ancient text.
Now the proposed shortage can reopen our understanding of the deceased Sea scroll, and the Judaism and Early Christianity, the authors of the study say.
“It is very exciting to set a significant step to resolve the Dead CC scroll and create a new tool, which can be used to study partially dated manuscript collections from history,” said Mladen Popovic.
AI analysis of radiocarbon dating and handwriting
Dead Sea Scroll, which was discovered in a cave in Israel in 1947, is the most important manuscript discovery of the previous hundred years.
The deceased Sea scroll has about 1,000 manuscripts. Among them are the oldest known copies of the texts from the Hebrew Bible. The study of these manuscripts has a professional understanding of the origin of Christianity and the formation of later Bible Judaism
Dating thesis with pallography manuscripts – Study of ancient handwriting – They discovers that 250 BCE and 100 CE have been written in several hundred years.
However, scholars have struggled to analyze ancient texts, especially with separating one writer’s style from another, which means dating is not very reliable.
Researchers aims to improve analytical methods by studying handicraft using AI and cross-refel this data with radiocarbon dating. Radiocarbon dating carbon -14 measures the age of the material by measuring isotopes that gradually disappear over time.
“Advantage of” [AI] The model is that it provides impartiality for peliography, reduces the theme of the method, “the author writes.
The AI model was first trained on 24 manuscripts with reliable radio carbon dating. The authors then used this AI model to analyze the handwriting style of 135 scrolls, with unknown dates spread to about 100 CEs for three centuries.
According to the analysis, it created a better way to dating written manuscripts with 79% accuracy.
“This novel approach allowed [the researchers] To combine historical expertise with technical precision, “Thia Summer Skilled and Yanis Asal said, who first developed AI equipment to study ancient texts at Oxford University, UK in a joint email to DW.
New dead sea scroll chronology
The authors of the study believe that their analysis can lead to a new chronology of scroll. If verified, it will change the understanding of the history and texts of the ancient Judea.
The AI analysis found that manuscripts are overall argan as compared to previous estimates, which suggest dates in the second century BC, and sometimes a little earlier.
Scholars often believe that the rise and expansion of the Hasmonian Empire since BCE of the Middle-Gut century caused an increase in “literacy scripture”. Authors say that their discovery shows that many literary manuscripts were imitating before this period.
Somaraschild and Asail say that new studies suggest that AI can be used to provide more accurate dating of other ancient texts.
“This new study shows that computational equipment does not reduce the role of human expertise, they increase it, even the best studied texts open new avenues for searching,” he said in his email.
Anctivity scholars believe that they are on the verge of a new era due to AI. For example, researchers have used AI to translate ancient texts, who have been disturbing ancient scholars for decades.
Edited by: Matthew Ward Egius
