Willard Libby tested his radiocarbon dating theory using linen wrappings from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent sources including a peer-reviewed Radiocarbon journal article, Libby's own Nobel lecture, and a University of Chicago news article.
Sources
- How Radiocarbon Dating Unlocks Ancient History | HISTORY (history.com)
- https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/libby-lecture.pdf (nobelprize.org)
- https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-site-radiocarbon-dating-discovery-named-historic-landmark (news.uchicago.edu)
- https://repository.arizona.edu/bitstream/handle/10150/653398/1537-1787-1-PB.pdf?sequence=1 (repository.arizona.edu)