News, Dead Sea Scrolls go from parchment to the Internet. (Jerusalem, ancient)

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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- More than 2,000 years after they were written, the Dead Sea Scrolls are going digital as part of an effort to better preserve the ancient texts and let more people see them than ever before.

Dead Sea Scrolls go from parchment to the Internet - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/27/digital.scrolls/index.html - broken link)

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I thinik that's great!! I love to research, but don't have the resources or credentials to travel and inspect all of these artifacts first hand. However, the internet is not exactly first hand. You have to put trust in the people who are restoring the document, trusting that they won't alter the contents.