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Research team reveals biblical text from damaged scroll


July 20, 2015

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For the first time, advanced technologies made it possible to read parts of a scroll that is at least 1,500 years old, which was excavated in 1970 but at some point earlier had been badly burned. The scroll was discovered inside the Holy Ark of the synagogue at Ein Gedi in Israel. High-resolution scanning and University of Kentucky Professor Brent Seales'  virtual unwrapping tool revealed verses from the beginning of the Book of Leviticus suddenly coming back to life.Full Story

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