Dead Sea scrolls go online

A fragment of the 2000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls is laid out at a laboratory on Dec. 18, 2012, in Jerusalem, Israel. More than sixty years after their discovery, Israel have put 5,000 fragments of the ancient Dead Sea scrolls online in a partnership with Google.

A conservation analyst from the Israeli Antiquities department examines fragments of the 2000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls at a laboratory before photographing them on Dec. 18, 2012, in Jerusalem, Israel.

A detail of fragments of the 2000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls at a laboratory before photographing them on Dec. 18, 2012, in Jerusalem, Israel.

A conservation analyst from the Israeli Antiquities department prepares fragments of the 2000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls at a laboratory before photographing them on Dec. 18, 2012, in Jerusalem, Israel.

A worker from the Israeli Antiquities department sits in a laboratory as a fragment of the 2000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls is photographed on Dec. 18, 2012, in Jerusalem, Israel.

A conservation analyst from the Israeli Antiquities department examines fragments of the 2000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls at a laboratory before photographing them on Dec. 18, 2012, in Jerusalem, Israel.

A conservation analyst from the Israeli Antiquities department prepares fragments of the 2000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls at a laboratory before photographing them on Dec. 18, 2012, in Jerusalem, Israel.

A conservation analyst from the Israeli Antiquities department examines fragments of the 2000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls at a laboratory before photographing them on Dec. 18, 2012, in Jerusalem, Israel.