Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows. A comprehensive survey of cat genes suggests that even after felines wandered into our lives, they remained largely unchanged for thousands of years.

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“The Dead Sea Scrolls were extremely important when they were discovered, because they completely changed the way we think about ancient Judaism ... One sample from a scroll known to contain ...

leading to a new chronology of the scrolls and the re-dating of ancient Jewish key texts that contribute to current debates on Jewish and Christian origins," the paper states. "There are no ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls, a treasure trove of ancient Jewish manuscripts ... that two biblical scroll fragments, 4QDanielc (4Q114) and 4QQoheleta (4Q109), date back to the time of their presumed ...

To overcome this problem, an international team of scientists created an AI-based date-prediction model — named Enoch, after the Biblical figure — trained on the basis of 24 dated scroll samples.

The rice stuff. If papermaking is one of the “four great inventions of ancient China,” xuan paper represents its highest form. Originating in the Tang dynasty (618–907), xuan paper is crafted from the ...