NASA Scientists Help Israel Digitalize And Publish Dead Sea

Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of thousands of fragments of the Dead Sea scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet. Israel's Antiquities Authority, the custodian of the scrolls that shed light on the life of Jews and early Christians at the time of Jesus, said on Wednesday it would take more than two years to complete the project coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the ancient writings. Since Bedouin shepherds first came upon the scrolls in caves near the Dead Sea in 1947, only a small number of scholars have been allowed to view the fragments. But recently access to the scrolls has been wide