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This is Scientific American 60-second science. I'm Cynthia Graber.

In the 1970s, researchers unearthing an ancient synagogue at Aengetty near the Dead Sea discovered the structure's holy arc, the container in which early Jews would have stored the Bible as they prayed.

The site was home to a large Jewish community from about 800 BCE until a huge fire there in about 600 CE.

That fire blackened and burned the scrolls in the ark.

They crumbled if touched.

So the Israeli scientists locked them away until now.

Panina Shore at the Israel Antiquities Authority reached out to computer scientist Brent Seals at the University of Kentucky

to see if he and his colleagues could use new technologies to peer inside a scroll without

unrolling it. They call the technique virtual unwrapping. Brent Seals explains.

First, we have to find the layers within the scanned volume. Finding evidence of those layers

is called segmentation. So there's a process for that.

Once we find those layers, we create a texture on those layers that comes from the scan volume itself,

and that's where the ink evidence gets situated onto the layer surface.

And then the final step is this unwrapping, where we flatten out that surface, which

is not actually flat, it's three-dimensional, so that we can merge the pieces together and see

the completely unwrapped scroll. They applied this technique to the Ingeti scroll.

The first time we saw the text was in the lab, and of course I don't speak or read Hebrew,

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