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A new image processing technique has peered into an ancient parchment scroll from Israel, allowing researchers to virtually unwrap the brittle parchment and read the text contained inside for the ...
The contents of an ancient burned Hebrew scroll have been deciphered for the first time thanks to state-of-the-art 3D scanning and digital imaging software. The rare parchment scroll, which was ...
discoverer of the scroll in the 1970 Ein Gedi excavations. Researchers said the Ein Gedi parchment is the oldest scroll discovered from the Hebrew Bible since the Dead Sea Scrolls, which date back ...
This week a computer scientist announced that his team found a way to unroll the scroll virtually. Working off x-ray scans of the artifact, specialized software detected the layers of parchment ...
ROME (JTA) – What is being described as the oldest Torah scroll known to exist has been discovered in the library of the University of Bologna. The parchment scroll, 36 meters long and 64 ...
Several antiquity authorities of Fogg Museum and the Department of Semitic Languages will be working for the next few months on the unrolling and translation of a leather parchment scroll brought ...
and the Temple Scroll, the thinnest parchment scroll ever found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Snyder noted the museum has also digitized the other three scrolls, and is now working on making them ...
Four Dead Sea Scroll fragments, previously thought to be blank, are anything but: Detailed imaging has revealed that these ancient pieces of parchment contain letters, sewn thread, ruled lines and ...
It's hoped the novel method will help generate a Dead Sea Scroll “genome” to aid scholars in decoding these mysterious artifacts. Piecing together the thousands of parchment fragments ...
The technology confirms that one of the ancient manuscripts – the Great Isaiah Scroll – was penned by ... throughout the more than 7-metre-long parchment scroll. Popović and his colleagues ...
The Creation Museum, which is based in Dallas, Texas, is donating a parchment scroll dated from 1500 B.C. to the Eucon International College. The valuable parchment scroll, which was made out of ...