“Scanning software deciphers ancient biblical scroll”

The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, or FARMS — which eventually became the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship — was once at the cutting edge of work like this (including the charred papyrus clumps from Herculaneum [near Pompeii], destroyed by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79):

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/60785bb2031a478cb71ce9278782c320/scanning-software-deciphers-ancient-biblical-scroll?nc=1474568569450

And, on the Dead Sea Scrolls, we worked very closely with Professor Emanuel Tov (note the proper spelling) of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Good times.  Those days were really quite exhilarating.

Thanks to Jean Corey for alerting me to this article.