(FILES) This file photo taken on July 20, 2015 shows a fragment of a burnt scroll at the Dead Sea scrolls laboratory in Jerusalem after specialists, thanks to modern scanning technology, managed to decipher Hebrew text on the artifact, revealing that the scroll is believed to be a 1,500 year old copy of the beginning of the book of Leviticus. An extremely fragile, ancient Hebrew scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing the earliest copy ever found of an Old Testament Bible scripture, researchers said September 21, 2016. Known as the En-Gedi scroll, it contains text from the Book of Leviticus, and dates at least to the third or fourth century, possibly earlier, according to the report in the journal Science Advances. The deciphering of its contents is described in the journal as a "significant discovery in biblical archeology." The scroll is not the oldest ever found -- that honor belongs to the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls which range from the third century BC to the second century of the common era (AD). / AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBONGALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty Images
