Scientists in Israel are making digital copies of the Dead Sea Scrolls to place them on the internet.
The 2 000 year old documents, most on parchment, are the oldest copies of the Hebrew Bible and include secular text dating from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD and infrared imaging will allow readers to see faded sections not visible to the naked eye.
I wonder if they will be viewable for free or a paying site?
The scrolls were found by a Bedouin shepherd looking for a stray sheep in 1947.
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