The Dead Sea Scrolls, the world's oldest known biblical documents, are now available to read online - and simply scrolling over phrases from one of the 2000-year-old scrolls instantly translates them into English#
'It�s taken 24 centuries, the work of archaeologists, scholars and historians, and the Internet to make the Dead Sea Scrolls accessible to anyone in the world,' said a post on the official Google blog today# A Google video of the hi-tech process is below#
The Great Isaiah Scroll - the most famous of the Dead Sea Scrolls - can be translated instantly, simply by moving your mouse over the text
The pictures of the scrolls appear at a resolution of 1,200 megapixels - hundreds of times sharper than even the most expensive professional cameras, created using a 'one-shot' technique where a camera 'scans' for up to 50 minutes to absorb huge amounts of information from artefacts.
Ain't technology fine!
