Ultra-high resolution images of several Dead Sea Scrolls are now available on the web, after Google helped digitise the ancient texts.The search firm lent its expertise in scanning documents to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.Both amateur and professional scholars will now have access to 1,200 megapixel images.Five scrolls have been captured, including the Temple Scroll and Great Isaiah Scroll.Ardon Bar-Hama, a noted photographer of antiquities, used ultraviolet-protected flash tubes to light the scrolls for 1/4000th of a second. The exposure time – which is much shorter than a conventional camera flash – was designed to protect the scrolls from damage.
Suite de l’article à BBC News – Google helps put Dead Sea Scrolls online.
