Dead Sea Scrolls to be made available to all

Thu, 2010-10-21 12:01

Submitted by Charlotte Hodgman 

 

Collaboration between Google and the Israel Antiquities Authority will make the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls available to over a billion internet users from 2011. Scientists believe that digitising the scrolls, which are currently kept in darkened, temperature-controlled rooms at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, will ensure the preservation of the 900 manuscripts for future generations, and means the fragile parchment fragments need not be exposed to light and air.

How AMAZING is that.