Google to publish Dead Sea Scrolls online

Google to put Dead Sea Scrolls Online

The dead sea scrolls are among the worlds most important and tightly restricted documents. Google is planning on making them available online and will be fully searchable. Once the images are up, anyone will be able to peruse exact copies of the original scrolls as well as an English translation of the text on their computer — for free.

Pnina Shor, an official with Israel’s Antiquities Authority said “We are putting together the past and the future in order to enable all of us to share it,”

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the late 1940s in caves in the Judean Desert and are considered one of the greatest finds of the last century.

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