New software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient, damaged Hebrew scroll without ever unfurling the fragile, disintegrating parchment. The digitization techniques, known as "volume ...

Archeologists have further unlocked writings in the ancient En-Gedi scroll -- the first severely damaged, ink-based scroll to be unrolled and identified noninvasively. Through virtual unwrapping, they ...

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An extremely fragile, ancient Hebrew scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing the earliest copy ever found of an Old Testament Bible scripture. Fire burned the En-Gedi scroll, ...

An ancient Hebrew scroll has been unwrapped and read 1,400 years after being destroyed in massive fire. The En-Gedi scroll, which is the oldest Pentateuchal scroll in Hebrew outside of the Dead Sea ...

LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 23 (UPI) --The En-Gedi scroll remains rolled and sealed, and will likely never be unraveled. It's also severely burned. But none of that has stopped scientists from revealing the ...

In 1961, Yoseph Porath, a volunteer on an archeological expedition to what is now known as the Cave of Letters, along the west coast of the Dead Sea in Israel, stepped on a wobbly stone deep within ...

The revolutionary software that was used by Israeli archaeologists to decipher an ancient Hebrew scroll from five charred lumps of animal skin parchment will be released as free open source software ...