An extremely fragile, ancient Hebrew scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing the earliest copy of Old Testament Bible scripture since the Dead Sea Scrolls, researchers said ...

SHERIDAN, Miami (AFP) - An extremely fragile, ancient Hebrew scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing the earliest copy of Old Testament Bible scripture since the Dead Sea ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist’s storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written ...

It might at first glance appear to be a lump of charcoal, but a piece of ancient scroll burned beyond all recognition can now be read for the first time since it was discovered. Scientists have used ...

How the scroll may have originally looked – revealed by imaging software. (Seth Parker-University of Kentucky, Ehud Shor, Jerusalem) A burned 1,500-year-old Hebrew scroll found on the shore of the ...

In a significant archaeological achievement, an ancient Hebrew scroll that was burned in a fire in the distant past and was seemingly impenetrable has finally become readable— and scientists have ...

RABBI MORDECHAI BECHER How the Dead Sea Scrolls, considered by many to be the most significant archaeological discovery of the 20th century, speak to Jews in the 21st century. The Israel Museum is an ...

CORRECTION: A number of changes were made in this article according to AFP corrections to its story, the main change being that this scroll is not the earliest copy of Old Testament Bible scripture.