The Dead Sea Scrolls are now available online under a new project by the Israel Museum in association with internet giant, Google.

Yossi Matias, managing director of Google's R&D Center in Israel said that his company is aiming to organize the information of the world and make is accessible for users. The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient and fragile so even direct sunlight could destroy them.

These scrolls were probably written and hidden by people alone the shore of the Dead Sea during the times of the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 A. D. they are associated with a secluded Jewish group that settled in Qumran in the Judean Desert.

The manuscripts related to the scrolls were discovered between 1947 and 1956. Some sections of the scrolls are displayed at Israel Museum's Shrine of the book. They are rotated every few months to increase exposure. Google's new tool allows users not only to zoon in the text but also read the translation in English.

"The Dead Sea Scrolls Project with the Israel Museum enriches and preserves an important part of world heritage by making it accessible to all on the internet," said Matias.