Successfully decode the 1,500-year-old bible scroll

On July 20, the Israeli Archaeological Agency (IAA) said advanced digital technology helped scientists first read a 1,500-year-old bible book.

The Israeli scientists decoded the 1,500-year-old bible scroll

A roll of handwritten parchment from the 6th century AD was found in 1970 at a cathedral in the Ein Gedi oasis, near the Dead Sea in southern Israel.

A 1,500-year-old ancient biblical scroll.(Source: timesofisrael.com)

According to the researchers, this is the oldest written Hebrew ( ancient Hebrew language) found after the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in the 40s of the twentieth century.

However, at that time unread scientists were scrolling the book because many parts of the text were scorched.

Until last year, Israeli Merkel Technology Company proposed support by using a scanner micro-CT scanner.

3D scanning results were sent to the University of Kentucky (USA) to develop digital imaging software and to produce the first images, through which researchers identified the content on the scroll. This parchment contains the first eight things in the Old Testament Leviticus.

Project Director of IAA Pnina Shor said more research is needed to decode the entire content of the text.

Ms. Shor added that the book is an important bridge between the world's oldest Dead Sea scroll written from the third century BC to the first century AD and the Aleppo Codex was born in the second century X AD./.