Using a process known as â??virtual unwrapping,â? which entails x-ray scanning, 3D texturing and virtual flattening, the researchers determined the scroll to contain text from the book of Leviticus, the third book of the Torah or Old Testament.
â??Never in our wildest dreams did we think anything would come of it,â? Pnina Shor, the head of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at the Israel Antiquities Authority, told The New York Times.
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