The Israel Antiquities Authority is working on taking digital photos of the Dead Sea Scrolls in order to make the 2,000- year -old documents available to the public online.
The project is being led by Greg Bearman, who retired from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Simon Tanner, a digital expert from King's College London, is in charge of data collection.
It will likely be two years before some of the scrolls will be made avaialbe online. They will have transcriptions, translations, scholarly interpretations and bibliographies for academic study.
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