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Wednesday, 28 September 2011 03:46

Dead Sea Scrolls go online through Google

A part of the Isaiah Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, inside the vault of the Shrine of the Book building at the Israel Museum. A part of the Isaiah Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, inside the vault of the Shrine of the Book building at the Israel Museum. Lior Mizrahi - Getty Images

For the first time, the 2,000-year-old, world-famous manuscripts are accessible to anyone in the world with a computer.

Following criticism that only a small circle of scholars could access the Dead Sea Scrolls , Israel’s national museum and Google teamed up to the put the most significant archaeological find of the 20th century online.

Five of the most important scrolls, including the biblical Book of Isaiah, the manuscript known as the Temple Scroll, and three others have been digitized.

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