Digital rehab exposes Biblical roots of ancient Israeli scroll
Virtual unwrapping reveals Hebrew text inside fragile artifact
![virtual image of unwrapped scroll](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/092116_bb_scrolls_free.jpg?fit=840%2C540&ssl=1)
SCROLL PATROL A digital analysis enabled scientists to virtually unwrap a fragile, more than 1,700-year-old scroll and determine that it contains the oldest known Biblical text, other than the Dead Sea Scrolls. The charred scroll itself is at right.
W.B. Seales et al/Science Advances 2016 (CC BY-NC)