Biblical Text Recovered Using "Virtual Unwrapping"

Biblical Text Revealed from Damaged 1,500-year-old Scroll

University of Kentucky | July 29, 2015

For the first time, advanced technologies made it possible to read parts of a scroll that is at least 1,500 years old, which was excavated in 1970 but at some point earlier had been badly burned. The scroll was discovered inside the Holy Ark of the synagogue at Ein Gedi in Israel. High-resolution scanning and University of Kentucky Professor Brent Seales' revolutionary software prototype designed to do “virtual unwrapping” of surfaces from within volumetric scans revealed verses from the beginning of the Book of Leviticus suddenly coming back to life.

Wrapped texture image of the Ein Gedi scroll, produced by Seales and his research team, showing letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Source:  http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2015/07/biblical-text-revealed-damaged-1500-year-old-scroll

<more at http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2015/07/biblical-text-revealed-damaged-1500-year-old-scroll; related links: http://uknow.uky.edu/content/seales-research-team-reveals-biblical-text-damaged-scroll (Seales' Research Team Reveals Biblical Text From Damaged Scroll. July 20, 2015) and http://www.kentucky.com/2015/07/20/3952975_university-of-kentucky-computer.html?rh=1 (University of Kentucky computer science chairman, students decipher ancient Hebrew scroll. July 20, 2015)>