{
  "id": 8686557,
  "title": "Scientists may have solved a 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls mystery",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/scientists-may-have-solved-a-2-000-year-old-dead-sea-scrolls-mystery",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-20T11:58:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ScienceDaily",
    "slug": "sciencedaily",
    "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260919031035.htm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Researchers may have solved a long-running mystery surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls by proposing that the Qumran sect really did use its distinctive 364-day calendar. Its perfectly ordered 52-week system kept holidays on the same weekdays, but it slowly drifted out of sync with the seasons because it was shorter than the true solar year.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}