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Dead Sea Scrolls to Hit the Web: 4 More Ancient Texts Google Should Digitize

By Steven HofferOct 19th 2010 – 6:08PM

(Oct. 19) -- Google announced today that, in a combined effort with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the search engine will soon be offering digital versions of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, an artifact widely considered to be among the greatest archaeological findings of the past century. Why stop there? Knowing...

Old-School Text Messages Arrive @ the British Library

By Alex EichlerAug 23rd 2010 – 4:55PM

(Aug. 23) -- Before there were text messages -- or rather, "b4 txts" (B.T.?) -- there was emblematic poetry. Fashionable during the Victorian era, emblematic verse played games with form and typography. A poem about flight and divinity, for example, might have its stanzas arranged in the shape of an angel's wings. And a...

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