3D
'unwrapping' tools let
scientists read an
ancient Hebrew scroll
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 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.*
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