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Oren Ableman, a Dead Sea scrolls researcher of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) -- who examined scroll fragments with the aid of advanced imaging equipment and revealed a previously unseen script -- looks at a large scroll fragment at the conservation laboratory of the IAA in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of hundreds of biblical texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered 45 years ago in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea. GALI TIBBON / AFP
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Shai Halevi, the photographer responsible the image processing of thousands of fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, stands next to a unique camera with special LED lights inside, at the Dead Sea scrolls digital laboratory in the conservation laboratory of the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of hundreds of biblical texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered 45 years ago in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea. GALI TIBBON / AFP
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A conservator uses tweezers to hold fragments of a Dead Sea scroll, at the scrolls' conservation laboratory of the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of hundreds of biblical texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered 45 years ago in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea. GALI TIBBON / AFP
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A man looks at the Dead Sea Scrolls found in Qumran caves in the Judean Desert and dated around 120 BC, during a visit to the Shrine of the Book at at the Israel Museum on May 2, 2018 in Jerusalem. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of hundreds of biblical texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered 45 years ago in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea. GALI TIBBON / AFP
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Shai Halevi, the photographer responsible the image processing of thousands of fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, stands next to a unique camera with special LED lights inside, at the Dead Sea scrolls digital laboratory in the conservation laboratory of the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of hundreds of biblical texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered 45 years ago in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea. GALI TIBBON / AFP
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A conservator uses tweezers to hold fragments of a Dead Sea scroll, at the scrolls' conservation laboratory of the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of hundreds of biblical texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered 45 years ago in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea. GALI TIBBON / AFP
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Oren Ableman, a Dead Sea scrolls researcher of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) -- who examined scroll fragments with the aid of advanced imaging equipment and revealed a previously unseen script -- points at a small scroll fragment containing the hidden text at the conservation laboratory of the IAA in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of hundreds of biblical texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered 45 years ago in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea. GALI TIBBON / AFP
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Pnina Shor (R), curator and director of the Israel Antiquities Authority's (IAA) Dead Sea scrolls, and Oren Ableman (C), the scroll researcher who examined scroll fragments with the aid of advanced imaging equipment and revealed a previously unseen script, stand looking above a large scroll fragment at the conservation laboratory of the IAA in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of hundreds of biblical texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered 45 years ago in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea. GALI TIBBON / AFP
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An Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) staff member points at an infra-red scan of a fragment of a Dead Sea Scroll next to a larger one, with a previously unseen hidden text that was revealed with the aid of advanced imaging equipment, at the IAA's Dead Sea scrolls conservation laboratory in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of hundreds of biblical texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered 45 years ago in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea. GALI TIBBON / AFP
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A picture taken on May 2, 2018 at the Israel Antiquities Authority's Dead Sea scrolls conservation laboratory in Jerusalem shows a large fragment of a scroll found in "Cave 11", next to another small fragment which recently with the aid of advanced imaging equipment revealed a previously unseen hidden text. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of hundreds of biblical texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered 45 years ago in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea. GALI TIBBON / AFP