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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.* Read more... More about Archaeology, Archeology, Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea, and Dead Sea Scrolls ??????? ??????: 3D 'unwrapping' tools let scientists read an ancient Hebrew scroll || ??????: rss || ??????: اسم منتداك
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