(Reuters-ABC News) Anyone with an Internet connection will be able to take a new look into the biblical past through an online archive of high-resolution images of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said on Tuesday it was collaborating with Google's research and development center in Israel to upload the entire collection of 30,000 fragments. The images will be equal in quality to the actual physical viewing of the scrolls, and new technology would help to expose writing that has faded over the centuries. The scrolls, most of them on parchment, are the oldest copies of the Hebrew Bible, and include text dating from the third century BCE to the first century CE.
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