The Dead Sea Scrolls, the world's oldest known biblical documents, are now available to read online - and simply scrolling over phrases from one of the 2000-year-old scrolls instantly translates them into English.
'It’s taken 24 centuries, the work of archaeologists, scholars and historians, and the Internet to make the Dead Sea Scrolls accessible to anyone in the world,' said a post on the official Google blog today. A Google video of the hi-tech process is below.
The Great Isaiah Scroll - the most famous of the Dead Sea Scrolls - can be translated instantly, simply by moving your mouse over the text
The pictures of the scrolls appear at a resolution of 1,200 megapixels - hundreds of times sharper than even the most expensive professional cameras, created using a 'one-shot' technique where a camera 'scans' for up to 50 minutes to absorb huge amounts of information from artefacts.
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