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- Computer imaging techniques help preserve and share readable manuscripts, especially important when dealing with ancient, deteriorated documents.
- A software method called "virtual unwrapping" allows for noninvasive reading of fragile texts, such as the En-Gedi scroll, which is the oldest Hebrew Pentateuchal scroll outside the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- This digital analysis captures high-quality readable text from damaged materials, paving the way for further textual discoveries and critical analysis.
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Computer imaging techniques are commonly used to preserve and share readable manuscripts, but capturing writing locked away in ancient, deteriorated documents poses an entirely different challenge. This software pipeline-referred to as "virtual unwrapping"-allows textual artifacts to be read completely and noninvasively. The systematic digital analysis of the extremely fragile En-Gedi scroll (the oldest Pentateuchal scroll in Hebrew outside of the Dead Sea Scrolls) reveals the writing hidden on its untouchable, disintegrating sheets. Our approach for recovering substantial ink-based text from a damaged object results in readable columns at such high quality that serious critical textual analysis can occur. Hence, this work creates a new pathway for subsequent textual discoveries buried within the confines of damaged materials.
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