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Tanya Treiger, a conservator at the Dead Sea scrolls laboratory in the conservation laboratory of the Israeli Antiquities Authorities in Jerusalem, works on fragments of a Dead Sea scroll on February 24, 2016. - Computer scientists and Dead Sea Scroll scholars began a new project in which they upload the Dead Sea Scrolls to a special digital working environment creating virtual workspace allowing scholars around the world to work together simultaneously, as well as a new platform for collaborative production and publication of Dead Sea Scrolls editions. The project will develop advanced digital tools to help identify connections between the thousands of tiny biblical scroll fragments and manuscripts found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It aims to create a dynamic virtual work environment that will enable the production and publication of a new generation of updatable digital editions of the scrolls. 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. (Photo by GALI TIBBON / AFP) (Photo by GALI TIBBON/AFP via Getty Images)