On-line the Dead Sea Scrolls. Strange but true, the ancient scrolls (dated to the second century BC and rediscovered in 1940 in the West Bank) will be scanned by Google. It 'started as a partnership between the giant U.S. and Israel, and will benefit the very people who, until now, have always complained about the difficulty of access to manuscripts, or religious and archaeological experts. But in all reality, that anyone can have access to the Internet, will receive the first comprehensive database and rolls available. Continue, then, the efforts of Google to digitize all the precious books of literature and knowledge of ancient and modern, to make your content accessible to the network and, with regard to the manuscripts are unique or rare, to preserve a copy.
documents, or copies thereof, have always been available for only a small group of scholars, but in a few months around the world can already benefit from the headlines, but for a full view of the scrolls must probably wait a bit 'of more. The fragments, about 30,000, now used only by very few restorers, will become affordable, although not only visual but tactile, students, scholars, historians, restorers. To facilitate
Google also will join an English translation (the scrolls are written in the Jewish Aramaic, and greek). The technology used, overpriced, it will be one developed by NASA for processing images. This project will add to the already enormous amount of historical books that Google, slowly, is "photocopying" and for us to preserve the knowledge of the past
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