Deciphering a burnt ancient scroll

The text of a burnt scroll unearthed in 1970 in Ein Gedi by the Dead Sea has now been deciphered by researchers in Kentucky and Jerusalem using high resolution 3D scanning.  Without unwrapping, the scroll contains the Torah book Leviticus – its text unchanged for at least 1500 years.

http://new.huji.ac.il/en/article/32759

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