The En-Gedi scroll dates back to at least the fourth century AD — the oldest Hebrew scroll found, other than the Dead Sea Scrolls — and cannot be unrolled without causing further damage.

William Seales at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and his colleagues used X-rays to scan the scroll, and developed software, called “virtual unwrapping”, to digitally reconstruct the

'pages' and words of the ancient artefact (pictured). They found that the ink-based text, discovered in 1970, contains fragments of the Book of Leviticus.

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