[size=16pt]The Dead Sea Scrolls are now available to researchers[/size]

Google and Israel put the ancient religious texts online for anyone to view

Digital library has the Book of Deuteronomy and first chapter of Genesis
Israel had previously been criticised for restricting access to the scrolls
Website allows users to zoom in, read translations and see related maps

By Damien Gayle

PUBLISHED: 17:10, 18 December 2012 | UPDATED: 17:10, 18 December 2012

Google has partnered with the Israeli government to put 5,000 images of the Dead Sea Scrolls online in full colour and high resolution.

More than six decades since the discovery of the scrolls - and thousands of years after they were written - they are now finally available for anyone with an Internet connection to see.

The digital library contains the Book of Deuteronomy, which includes the second listing of the Ten Commandments, and a portion of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, dated to the first century BC.

Anyone interested in the scrolls can visit http://www.deadseascrolls.org.il for a closer look.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2250072/Scroll-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-Google-Israel-ancient-religious-texts-online-view.html#ixzz2FQglYE5M

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Israeli officials have often been criticised for allowing the artefacts to be monopolised by small circles of scholars.

They said this is part of an attempt by the custodians of the celebrated manuscripts to make them broadly available for anyone to view.

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