From The Guardian: From papyrus to cyberspace: Israel to make Dead Sea Scrolls available online.
Scientists and scholars in Jerusalem have begun a programme to take the first high-resolution, digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls so they can be made available to the public on the internet.
The Israel Antiquities Authority this week ends a pilot project that prepares the way for a much larger operation to photograph the 15-20,000 fragments that make up the 900 scrolls which were discovered 60 years ago by shepherds in caves close to the Dead Sea. (…)
Now, in a project that could take five years and will cost millions of dollars, the fragments will be photographed first by a 39-megapixel colour digital camera, then by another digital camera in infra-red light and finally some will be photographed using a sophisticated multi-spectral imaging camera, which can distinguish the ink from the parchment and papyrus on which the scrolls were written.
Eventually all the fragments will be available to view online, with [continue]
I saw this yesterday and thought “Oooh, I should tell Mirabilis” and “I feel guilty because I haven’t been to Mirabilis in a while”.
I should have known (better).
Great news! Will be looking to hear and see more about it. Amber.
Amber: me too!
Peacay: But you know, sometimes I do miss things, and big things at that! So your email is always welcome.