Now, a ground-breaking digital analysis has revealed how many writers have penned it.
The research and innovative technology behind it stand to teach us about the origins of the Bible itself.
The question is, when exactly?
They are examples of both ancient Hebrew and distinct handwriting.
Most of these ostraca date to around 600 BCE, almost the eve of the kingdoms fall.
In other words, this is similar to the algorithms tech companies use for digital signature detection.
Handwriting analysis is a big area thats seen a lot of research in recent years, Shaus said.
Nevertheless, we had to develop our own tools and this was quite challenging.
The medium is very deteriorated and so is the writing.
This was an extremely surprising result, said Shaus.
However, not everyone is not happy with all facets of this conclusion.
But who was really able to write at that time?
Were bringing new evidence to the game, Shaus said.
Now, well see what else comes out.
Source: Gizmodo
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