Dead Sea Scrolls or the Dead Sea Scrolls, the script is touted as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in human history, will soon be able to enjoy it online via the internet.Recently, the Israeli antiquities authority (Israel Antiquities Authority / IAA) has appointed Google to digitize a collection of dead sea manuscript.
"This is the most important discoveries in the 20th century, and we can pass it with the most advanced technology in the coming century," said Project Director of the IAA, Pnina Shor as quoted from Discovery.com.
Conservation of ancient manuscripts to the attention of the IAA is indeed a long time. Less than optimal care and display practices conducted in the last decades, has led to consequences 'disaster' for the preservation of this manuscript, said Shor.
Therefore, the IAA decided to provide footage of manuscripts that could prevent further degradation. This text is feared could no longer bear to be photographed, because exposure to light and air can be fatal to the scrolls.
Therefore, the project budget of $ 3.5 million (USD 31.25 billion), will use multi-spectral imaging technology and infra-red scanning, developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to copy manuscripts into shape clearest digital-quality rendering.
The artefacts themselves are now in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. When not shown, the artefacts are stored in a dark place, and storage space with the temperature, humidity, and light conditioned just like the conditions at the place where the manuscript was found..
All of the Dead Sea Scrolls actually been immortalized through the photographs since the 1950s. However, access to the photographs and documents that have been restricted. Only about four conservation experts are allowed to handle the manuscript fragments and scientists have also limited their time to learn this script directly.
Dead Sea Scrolls is a roll of parchment and leather, papyrus, and copper bearing Hebrew texts, Greek, and Aramaic, discovered in 1947 by a shepherd in the Qumran caves near the Dead Sea.
This text consists of 30 thousand fragments from 900 manuscripts, which contains several ancient texts from the 3rd century BC to AD 70 Among these texts contain the gospel, and one of the oldest is a copy of the text of the Ten Commandments of God (Ten Commandments).
He reveals the development of Judaism from the Hellenistic period and persinggungannya with the early history of Christianity. Through this project, it is hoped the first pictures of this script can be enjoyed online in the coming months.
"When you are online, then roll these manuscripts are no longer exposed, and everyone can see it in person, at the office or while sitting on the sofa of his house," says Shor.
Dead Sea Scrolls is a roll of parchment and leather, papyrus, and copper bearing Hebrew texts, Greek, and Aramaic, discovered in 1947 by a shepherd in the Qumran caves near the Dead Sea.
This text consists of 30 thousand fragments from 900 manuscripts, which contains several ancient texts from the 3rd century BC to AD 70 Among these texts contain the gospel, and one of the oldest is a copy of the text of the Ten Commandments of God (Ten Commandments).
He reveals the development of Judaism from the Hellenistic period and persinggungannya with the early history of Christianity. Through this project, it is hoped the first pictures of this script can be enjoyed online in the coming months.
"When you are online, then roll these manuscripts are no longer exposed, and everyone can see it in person, at the office or while sitting on the sofa of his house," says Shor.
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