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Toto · 11-02-2009, 10:51 AM

USC researchers are producing crisp images of inscriptions and artifacts from biblical Israel and other Near Eastern locales and putting the pictures online.

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Researchers at USC's West Semitic Research Project have helped uncover its hidden narrative with the aid of lighting and imaging techniques that are credited with revolutionizing the study of ancient texts.

Over the last three decades, the USC project has produced thousands of crisp images of inscriptions and other artifacts from biblical Israel and other Near Eastern locales, making the pictures available to the public in an online archive, InscriptiFact.com.

Among the items shown in the online collection is a Dead Sea Scroll dating to the 1st century that discusses a buried treasure in modern-day Israel. (It's impossible to pinpoint the precise location because landmarks mentioned in the text no longer exist.)

avi · 11-02-2009, 06:04 PM

Thank you for this link to an interesting project from USC. I wonder if there is any news yet, from another one of the USC high tech enterprises, the attempt to decipher the charred remains of the papyrus scrolls in the library of a private citizen in Herculaneum. Weren't they supposed to have an initial result available for the public, by this time, Autumn 2009?

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11-02-2009, 06:04 PM	#2
avi Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Location: eastern North America Posts: 1,468	Thank you for this link to an interesting project from USC. I wonder if there is any news yet, from another one of the USC high tech enterprises, the attempt to decipher the charred remains of the papyrus scrolls in the library of a private citizen in Herculaneum. Weren't they supposed to have an initial result available for the public, by this time, Autumn 2009?

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