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Dating ancient manuscripts using radiocarbon and AI-based writing style analysis
Mladen Popović, Maruf A. Dhali, Lambert Schomaker et al., 2025. PLOS One 20(6), e0323185.
New AMS radiocarbon dates for 30 manuscripts from four Judaean Desert sites and the Enoch model, a Bayesian ridge regression on stroke-angle and allograph features of binarised images, trained on 24 dated manuscripts and used to predict dates for 135 undated ones. Reports errors, test-set overlap and palaeographic review of predictions.
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Popović, M., Dhali, M. A., Schomaker, L., van der Plicht, J., Rasmussen, K. L., La Nasa, J., Degano, I., Colombini, M. P., & Tigchelaar, E. (2025). Dating ancient manuscripts using radiocarbon and AI-based writing style analysis. PLOS One 20(6), e0323185. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323185
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author = {Popović, Mladen and Dhali, Maruf A. and Schomaker, Lambert and van der Plicht, Johannes and Rasmussen, Kaare Lund and La Nasa, Jacopo and Degano, Ilaria and Colombini, Maria Perla and Tigchelaar, Eibert},
title = {Dating ancient manuscripts using radiocarbon and AI-based writing style analysis},
journal = {PLOS One 20(6), e0323185},
year = {2025},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0323185},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323185}
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Popović, Mladen et al.. “Dating ancient manuscripts using radiocarbon and AI-based writing style analysis.” PLOS One 20(6), e0323185 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323185.