employs a different method of “virtually unrolling” damaged scrolls, which he used in 2016 to “open” a scroll found on the western shore of the Dead Sea, revealing the first few verses from the book of Leviticus.
This is witchcraft level science right here. Nobody in the ancient world would understand how you could read a closed scroll.
The team’s approach combined digital scanning with micro-computed tomography—a noninvasive technique often used for cancer imaging—with segmentation to digitally create pages, augmented with texturing and flattening techniques. Then they developed software (Volume Cartography) to unroll the scroll virtually.
I hope for the sake of preservation that these texts are recovered safely and are able to be read. What a trove of knowledge and wonder!
Sometimes it’s cool to live in the future.
