October 18, 2010
Source: The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/world/middleeast/20scrolls.html?ref=religion_and_belief
The scribes who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls could not have imagined their texts’ one day being Googled.
But the Israel Antiquities Authority, the custodian of the scrolls, the 2,000-year-old biblical and apocryphal texts discovered last century in caves in the Judean desert, announced Tuesday that it was collaborating with Google’s research and development arm in Israel on uploading newly digitized images of the closely guarded manuscripts and making them available to all online in a matter of months.