Whether an Egyptian God of War uses the seven gods, doorkeepers, and heralds from the Book of the Dead or the Twenty-One Secret Portals of the Mansion of Osiris in the Field of Rushes as a basis ...

In this drawing, he mimicked the outline drawing technique of ancient Egypt in order to capture the jackals he found on tomb decorations in Cairo. These animals are associated with the afterlife in ...

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

Since their discovery, the historically and biblically hugely important Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding of Jewish and Christian origins. However, while the general date of the ...

Humans Dead Sea Scrolls analysis may force rethink of ancient Jewish history Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written ...

In their new study, the team carbon dated 24 Dead Sea Scroll samples. The researchers fed digital images of the 24 dated scrolls into a machine learning model — a type of AI — which was ...

In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd tossed a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea—and he heard it strike pottery. Upon entering the cave, he found a jar filled with three well-preserved rolls of marked ...

An 88-year-old woman from the Czech Republic, thought to be dead, shows signs of life in her coffin, highlighting the rare Lazarus Effect.

Over the years, scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls have analyzed the ancient parchments with various methods: for example, X-rays, multispectral imaging, "virtual unfolding," and paleography, i.e ...