The new technology has allowed for the first time, deciphering one of the oldest existing Hebrew scrolls of 15 centuries old, found near the Dead Sea, reported Israeli and American experts on Monday.
The deteriorated scroll was found in 1970, in the ashes of a synagogue at Ein Gedi, near the Dead Sea.
Until now, researchers had been unable to read it, because of its precarious state.
“The most advanced technology allowed us to unravel the scroll, which was part of a Bible 1,500 years old,” said Pnina Shor, the Israeli Antiquities Authority, told a news conference in Jerusalem.
When it was discovered, the text could not be deciphered, said Sefi Porat, team member who extracted the parchment, burned for 45 years.
The fragment, seven centimeters long, which looks like a piece of coal, contains the first eight verses of the book of Leviticus in the Bible, which describes the rules of ritual sacrifices, Pnina Shor reported.
The experts made a three-dimensional scanning, which was then , sent to the Department of Informatics at the University of Kentucky. The institution has developed a digital imaging program that enabled the projection of the first images legible last week.
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