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  2. History of scrolls - Wikipedia

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    The history of scrolls dates back to ancient Egypt. In most ancient literate cultures scrolls were the earliest format for longer documents written in ink or paint on a flexible background, preceding bound books ; [ 2 ] rigid media such as clay tablets were also used but had many disadvantages in comparison.

  3. War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness

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    The manuscript was among the scrolls found in Qumran Cave 1, acquired by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and first published posthumously by Eleazar Sukenik in 1955. [1] The document is made up of various scrolls and fragments including 1QM, and 4Q491–497. [1] It is possible that The War of the Messiah is the conclusion to this document. [2]

  4. After 2,000 years of mystery, secrets of the Herculaneum ...

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    The trio were able to read 2,000 letters from the scroll after training machine-learning algorithms on the scans. After creating a 3D scan of the text using a CT scan, the scroll was then ...

  5. Herculaneum papyri - Wikipedia

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    It is here only that any portion of ancient Herculaneum may be seen in the open day." [5] It is uncertain how many papyri were originally found as many of the scrolls were destroyed by workmen or when scholars extracted them from the volcanic tuff. [7] The official list amounts to 1,814 rolls and fragments, of which 1,756 had been discovered by ...

  6. AI reads text from famously inscrutable ancient scroll for ...

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    Using AI and computer tomography, researchers have pulled one word from the indiscernible 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scrolls, which were burned in the Vesuvius eruption.

  7. The 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried hundreds of scrolls that researchers now think they can read with artificial intelligence.

  8. Ketef Hinnom scrolls - Wikipedia

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    The Ketef Hinnom scrolls, also described as Ketef Hinnom amulets, are the oldest surviving texts currently known from the Hebrew Bible, dated to c. 600 BCE. [2] The text, written in the Paleo-Hebrew script (not the Babylonian square letters of the modern Hebrew alphabet, more familiar to most modern readers), is from the Book of Numbers in the Hebrew Bible, and has been described as "one of ...

  9. Spells for the afterlife found on 52-foot papyrus scroll from ...

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    The rest of the scroll includes 150 columns written in hieratic script. Hieratic is a cursive form of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, according to the Getty Center .