Google Brings the Dead Sea Scrolls To the Digital Age

skade88 writes "Google has been working to bring many old manuscripts to the internet at high resolution for all to see. From their announcement: 'A little over a year ago, we helped put online five manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls—ancient documents that include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence. Written more than 2,000 years ago on pieces of parchment and papyrus, they were preserved by the hot, dry desert climate and the darkness of the caves in which they were hidden. The Scrolls are possibly the most important archaeological discovery of the 20th century. Today, we're helping put more of these ancient treasures online. The Israel Antiquities Authority is launching the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, an online collection of some 5,000 images of scroll fragments, at a quality never seen before.'"

Comments

Re:Where do they put all of those digitized works?

[Anonymous Coward]

You do recaptchas in ancient Aramaic?

Re:Are we any smarter than we were 2000 years ago?

[TheGratefulNet]

god wants steak.

oh wait, that's dog. I confused the owt.

Re:Are we any smarter than we were 2000 years ago?

[TheGratefulNet]

We have had the wheel for thousands of years but people don't get into a pissing contest about who invented / discovered it.

its either apple or samsung. one of those.

(what??)

Re:Are we any smarter than we were 2000 years ago?

[Anonymous Coward]

god wants steak.

oh wait, that's dog. I confused the owt.

Have you heard the one about the agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac who lies in bed awake at night wondering is there is a dog?

Re:Are we any smarter than we were 2000 years ago?

[lucm]

It seems that you have some form of belief in supernatural beings of some form or another, such as angels, demons and gods.

Taking from my comment that I believe in God is like saying the ACLU is in favor of pedophilia because they defended NAMBLA. It's simplistic and wrong.