<ul><li>Scholars have analyzed the Dead Sea Scrolls using various methods and traditionally dated them between the third century BCE and the first century CE based on paleography.</li><li>A new study utilized radiocarbon dating and machine-learning-based handwriting analysis to create an AI program named Enoch, leading to revised dating estimates for the scrolls.</li><li>The research findings suggest that many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are older than previously believed.</li><li>The ancient Hebrew texts, consisting of around 900 scrolls, were discovered in 1946–1947 near Qumran, with historians theorizing they were hidden by the Essenes sect for protection from Roman destruction.</li></ul>

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