Starting today, “the Google tool on the Israel Museum website makes entire scrolls accessible and allows browsers to zoom into the text of the Great Isaiah Scroll as well as read its translation in English.” More information. Video after the break. Click here to see more.
Scholars believe the 2,000-year-old scrolls were written by a Jewish sect from Qumran in the Judean Desert and were hidden in the caves around 70AD, when the Romans destroyed the temple in Jerusalem.
[via DailyMail]
