Google Israel’s R&D centre has helped digitise five of the 2000 year-old texts that were discovered between 1947 and 1956. Special flash photography was used to protect the scrolls.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-26/dead-sea-scrolls-go-online-as-google-joins-israel-museum-to-help-scholars.html
The Dead Sea Scrolls go online
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