A Mysterious Second Author Helped to Write the Dead Sea Scrolls - Mysterious Universe

It turns out that at least two people wrote the best preserved and largest of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in the Qumran caves, says Jocelyne LeBlanc. She describes how an artificial intelligence analysis of the c. 125 BCE Great Isaiah Scroll came to that conclusion, which also has implications for analyzing other scrolls. A somewhat similar surprise is that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre's Mysterious Graffiti' Crosses May Not Be What They Seem, according to Laura Geggel. Algorithms in both cases complemented good ol' "eyeballing" a certain characteristic of a scroll in the first instance and the outcome of a tourist-vandal's attempt in the second to produce unexpected results. Perhaps an even larger surprise is Science Daily's reporting that Most Human Origins Stories Are Not Compatible with Known Fossils. The article argues that the inclusive approach there described would help "reconstruct the 'starting point' from which humans and chimpanzees evolved." And further down the evolutionary trail, but still at least 600,000 years ago, Neanderthals Carb Loaded, Helping Grow Their Big Brains. That from Ann Gibbons, about a "groundbreaking" collaborative study indicating the ancestors of humans and Neanderthals "had already adapted to eating more starchy plants long before the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago." This finding has major implications for the mechanisms behind human development, and owes its discovery to the study of fossil dental calculus. That scientific epiphany is something to chew on. (WM)

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