It might at first glance appear to be a lump of charcoal, but a piece of ancient scroll burned beyond all recognition can now be read for the first time since it was discovered. Scientists have used ...

ROME (JTA) – What is being described as the oldest Torah scroll known to exist has been discovered in the library of the University of Bologna. The parchment scroll, 36 meters long and 64 centimeters ...

A new image processing technique has peered into an ancient parchment scroll from Israel, allowing researchers to virtually unwrap the brittle parchment and read the text contained inside for the ...

The contents of an ancient burned Hebrew scroll have been deciphered for the first time thanks to state-of-the-art 3D scanning and digital imaging software. The rare parchment scroll, which was ...

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but capturing multiple images of an artifact across the electromagnetic spectrum can tell a rich story about the original creation and degradation of ...

How the scroll may have originally looked – revealed by imaging software. (Seth Parker-University of Kentucky, Ehud Shor, Jerusalem) A burned 1,500-year-old Hebrew scroll found on the shore of the ...

How did the Dead Sea Scrolls—documents written on parchment, papyrus and bronze— survive almost 2,000 years in caves near the Dead Sea? Researchers have been intrigued, in particular, by one document ...

SHARON – Torah scroll number 655 has traveled far – from a village synagogue in Czechoslovakia, to a London synagogue and Temple Sinai in Sharon. It escaped destruction during the Holocaust, and then ...

A secretive encounter with a Bedouin in a desert valley led to the discovery of two fragments from a nearly 2,000-year-old parchment scroll — the first such finding in decades, an Israeli ...

Fragments from the Dead Sea Scroll thought to be completely blank, are actually covered in ancient Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions, study reveals. Pieces of the scroll held by the University of ...