The Israel Antiquities Authority, in collaboration with Google, has launched The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a new website that allows visitors to view and search high-resolution images of the complete Dead Sea Scrolls archive online.
This week, the Israel Antiquities Authority, in collaboration with Google, launched The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a new website that allows visitors to view and search high-resolution images of the complete Dead Sea Scrolls archive online. The project uses the most advanced and innovative technologies available to image the entire collection of about 930 manuscripts, comprising thousands of Dead Sea Scrolls fragments, in high resolution and multiple spectra. Through this process, hundreds of images are now accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world over the web, with many thousands more on the way. Several hundred fragments are already viewable, and it is hoped that transcriptions and translations for many scrolls will soon be available as well.
View the digital Dead Sea Scrolls archive.
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Hello: I was looking at the conservation applied to the Scrolls. In the removal of the tape from the surface. Was the use of a laser ever used or considered? Over the use of the mechanical methods?
Nice… post…
Thnks..
Hello Dead: Thanks for your message. Do you know if lasers were ever considered in the conservation of the Dead Sea Scrolls? Such as, the removal of any soiling from the Scrolls surfaces?
Neil
Hello Dead: Have you or anybody else had a chance to read my message about the use of a laser in the conservation of the Scrolls?