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The oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence, the Dead Sea Scrolls, are now online to everyone in the world with the aid of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and Google. The Dead Sea Scrolls ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls are 2,000 years old and very sensitive to direct light. At the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where they are housed, the scrolls are rotated every few months to minimize the damage.
The ancient texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are online for the first time ever (with translation) thanks to a partnership between the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and Google. Written between the first ...
Surfers can search high-resolution images of the scrolls for specific passages, zoom in and out, and translate verses into English. Dead Sea Scrolls to Go Online 13 photos ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls is a collection of more than 900 different texts discovered in a series of 11 caves in the desert near Qumran in the mid 1940s and 1950s.
Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls are available online.
Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls are available online.
Dead Sea Scrolls Online, Searchable, Thanks to Google The famed Dead Sea Scrolls have gone digital, thanks to a collaboration between Google and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Five of the scrolls are ...
JERUSALEM — The Dead Sea Scrolls, so ancient and fragile that direct light cannot shine on them, are now available to search and read online in a project launched Monday by the Israel Museum ...
In 2016, Schofield and her colleagues began excavating new fragments of the scrolls. It was the first major excavation for the Dead Sea Scrolls since the manuscripts were discovered in the 1940s.
The Hebrew text is also translated into English when clicked. The scrolls went online via a partnership between Google and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls and when were they found? Learn what's in them and what makes the ongoing research surrounding these ancient treasures so significant.