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text was reproduced over time. Archaeologists who restored the Dead Sea Scrolls worked in a basic mindset similar to the digital archaeologists from London in 2010 by uncovering, searching through and restoring files. recovered an amazing amount from the fragmented text. Almost every book from the Hebrew Bible was part of the original manuscripts found in 1947. It’s incredible to see scientists identify the circumstances that allowed sometimes fragmented scrolls to survive more than 2,000 years – the type of ink, the arid conditions, the lack of tanning materials, the type of parchment, storage techniques and they way the Increasingly media is transferred or originates in a digital format, and much of the information is now considered digital-born. The text Dead Sea Scrolls Before Unraveled (Habermann, Abraham Meir, 1901) 37