An AI system has successfully dated 100 fragmented Dead Sea Scrolls, pushing their origins back by 50 to 150 years. Using a combination of paleography and radiocarbon dating, this AI, named Enoch, represents a significant advancement in understanding these ancient texts. Led by Mladec Popovic from the Qumran Institute, this research sheds new light on the manuscripts, offering greater chronological precision and potentially altering scholars' views on the development of religious ideas. This discovery could reshape interpretations of foundational moments in Jewish and Christian culture.
Popovic emphasizes that the research doesn't simply claim that all the manuscripts are 50 to 100 years older. Even more relevant to him is its ability to date individual manuscripts, which allows for details and nuances.
Enoch is the name given to the AI created by his colleagues at the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence at the same university.
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