NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: The Dead Sea Scrolls have been secreted away for most of their 2,000-year history — first by ancient people in the Khirbet Qumran caves near the Dead Sea and then by select groups of scholars in museums, universities, and even private collections.
Now Google and the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) are making these sacred texts, including some that aren’t in today’s Bible, available to anyone who has a computer and a curious mind.
The IAA has digitized and released high resolution scans of 5,000 fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the earliest known copies of the Ten Commandments and the Judeo-Christian creation story. Since the texts were written on parchment and papyrus, many sections are worn, faded and completely illegible to the human eye. But the IAA is using NASA technology to photograph and upload copies of the texts at a quality never seen before… (more)
