Since the sacred text of the Dead Sea Scrolls was discovered in the 1940s few besides religious scholars were allowed to closely examine the centuries old text. Google now gives the world up close and personal access to the scrolls, thanks to a partnership with the Israeli Antiquities Authority. Both have put 5000 images of scroll fragments online at resolutions as high as 1215 dpi.
Access to the Dead Sea Scrolls compliment earlier efforts made last year by Google and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, which put portions of the scrolls online as part of an ongoing exhibit. According to Google the scrolls when viewed at such high-resolution reveal a level of detail that are invisible to the naked eye.
Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library"The site displays infrared and color images that are equal in quality to the Scrolls themselves," Google Israel's Principal for New Business Development, Eyal Miller, and the Head of Israel Research and Development Center, Yossi Matias, explained in a Google blog.
Among the scroll fragments on display at the online museum is one of the earliest copies of the Book of Deuteronomy, known for containing the 10 Commandments, and the Book of Genesis, which describes the creation of heaven and earth and the first humans' banishment from the Garden of Eden.
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