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09-21-2016, 10:00 PM
3D 'unwrapping' tools let scientists read an ancient Hebrew scroll
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New software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient, damaged Hebrew scroll without ever unfurling the fragile, disintegrating parchment.
The digitization techniques, k**wn as "volume cartography," transformed what were the charred remains of the nearly 2,000-year-old En-Gedi scroll into legible columns of handwritten text from the book of Leviticus, according to a study (http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/9/e1601247) published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
"We are reading a real scroll that hasn't been read for millennia," said Brent Seales, who helped develop the cartography techniques and is a computer sciences professor at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/21/virtual-unwrapping-en-gedi-scroll/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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New software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient, damaged Hebrew scroll without ever unfurling the fragile, disintegrating parchment.
The digitization techniques, k**wn as "volume cartography," transformed what were the charred remains of the nearly 2,000-year-old En-Gedi scroll into legible columns of handwritten text from the book of Leviticus, according to a study (http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/9/e1601247) published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
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