Volume Cartography is a computer program for locating and mapping 2-dimensional surfaces within a 3-dimensional object.
[1] X-rays can reveal minute details of what is in an object,[2][3] and computer program such as Volume Cartography can organize the images into layers, a process called volume rendering.
Ein Gedi is a community that was destroyed by fire during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian in the 6th century AD.
[4] The burning of the Ein Gedi synagogue reduced its scrolls on parchment to lumps of charcoal.
In 2016, W. Brent Seales, a researcher at the University of Kentucky, created a set of computer programs called Volume Cartography to reconstruct the layers of text in a digital X-ray image of the one of the scrolls, known as the En-Gedi Scroll.