The scroll from En-Gedi: A high-tech recovery mission

Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 13:04 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Archeologists have further unlocked writings in the ancient En-Gedi scroll -- the first severely damaged, ink-based scroll to be unrolled and identified noninvasively. Through virtual unwrapping, they have revealed it to be the earliest copy of a Pentateuchal book -- Leviticus -- ever found in a Holy Ark.

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