Dead Sea Scrolls go from parchment to the Internet
"....More than 2,000 years after they were written, the Dead Sea Scrolls are going digital as part of an effort to better preserve the ancient texts and let more people see them than ever before.
A fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, left, as seen by a high-resolution single-wavelength infrared imager, right.
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The high-tech initiative, announced Wednesday, will also reveal text that was previously not visible to the naked eye.
Over the next two years, the Israel Antiquities Authority will digitally photograph and scan every bit of crumbling parchment and papyrus that makes up the scrolls, which include the oldest written record of the Bible's Old Testament.
The images eventually will be posted on the Internet for anyone to see........."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/27/digital.scrolls/index.html
- The Israel Antiquities Authority will digitally photograph and scan the scrolls
The images will be posted on the Internet for anyone to see- Some of the scrolls date back more than 2,000 years
- Texts include the oldest written record of the Bible's Old Testament
"....More than 2,000 years after they were written, the Dead Sea Scrolls are going digital as part of an effort to better preserve the ancient texts and let more people see them than ever before.
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The high-tech initiative, announced Wednesday, will also reveal text that was previously not visible to the naked eye.
Over the next two years, the Israel Antiquities Authority will digitally photograph and scan every bit of crumbling parchment and papyrus that makes up the scrolls, which include the oldest written record of the Bible's Old Testament.
The images eventually will be posted on the Internet for anyone to see........."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/27/digital.scrolls/index.html
