It is amazing how new technology can tell us a lot about the past.
A fragment of a burned scroll is seen in 2015 at the Dead Sea scrolls laboratory in Jerusalem after specialists, thanks to modern scanning technology, managed to decipher Hebrew text on the artifact, revealing that the scroll is believed to be a 1,500-year-old copy of the beginning of the book of Leviticus. | AFP-JIJI
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Google-funded scanning software ‘unwraps’ 2,000-year-old charred biblical scroll
JERUSALEM/MIAMI – The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist’s storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written inside: the earliest evidence of a biblical text in its standardized form.
The passages from the Book of Leviticus, scholars say, offer the first physical evidence of what has long been believed: that the version of the Hebrew Bible used today goes back 2,000 years.
The discovery, announced in a Science Advances journal article by researchers in Kentucky and Jerusalem on Wednesday, was made using “virtual unwrapping,” a 3-D digital analysis of an X-ray scan. Researchers say it is the first time they have been able to read the text of an ancient scroll without having to physically open it.
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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...e-funded-scanning-software-unwraps-2000-year-
A fragment of a burned scroll is seen in 2015 at the Dead Sea scrolls laboratory in Jerusalem after specialists, thanks to modern scanning technology, managed to decipher Hebrew text on the artifact, revealing that the scroll is believed to be a 1,500-year-old copy of the beginning of the book of Leviticus. | AFP-JIJI
BUSINESS / TECH
Google-funded scanning software ‘unwraps’ 2,000-year-old charred biblical scroll
JERUSALEM/MIAMI – The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist’s storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written inside: the earliest evidence of a biblical text in its standardized form.
The passages from the Book of Leviticus, scholars say, offer the first physical evidence of what has long been believed: that the version of the Hebrew Bible used today goes back 2,000 years.
The discovery, announced in a Science Advances journal article by researchers in Kentucky and Jerusalem on Wednesday, was made using “virtual unwrapping,” a 3-D digital analysis of an X-ray scan. Researchers say it is the first time they have been able to read the text of an ancient scroll without having to physically open it.
Continue reading at:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...e-funded-scanning-software-unwraps-2000-year-
