Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:A scholar from the Netherlands used AI to determine that the Dead Sea Scrolls may be older than previously believed. In the future, scientists hope the model will be useful in dating other mysterious ancient textsDating ancient artifacts is very difficult. That said, sometimes you get lucky, like the researchers investigating the famous Dead Sea Scrolls did when they realized that the author wrote the dates of creation directly on several of the pages. However, not every scroll was labeled, and as a result, the undated Dead Sea Scrolls have been much harder for scientists to pin down. The Enoch model, paired with radiocarbon dating, estimates older ages for “many of the Dead Sea Scrolls” than traditional handwriting analysis methods.