Google rolls out the Dead Sea Scrolls online
Some 2,000 years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the Dead Sea Scrolls are now available online. Israel's national museum, pictured above with the scrolls, and Google are behind the project, which put five scrolls online yesterday. The scrolls include the biblical Book of Isaiah, pictured right. ap
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