For Nicole Gilroy, head of book conservation ... Unlike other ancient texts, which were often copied and recopied over centuries, some of these scrolls are likely originals, preserved exactly ...
New software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient ... the nearly 2,000-year-old En-Gedi scroll into legible columns of handwritten text from the book of Leviticus, according to ...
Unlike the typical papyrus scrolls used by ancient Egyptians, this book had pages that resembled a type of treated metal or stone, bound together with an intricate mechanism. Early analyses ...