Scrolls

Dad’s genius trick for turning leftover sandwich crusts into cinnamon scrolls 

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A father-of-two from Melbourne has shared his trick for turning leftover sandwich crusts into cinnamon scrolls, and parents across Australia have labelled it ‘genius’. George Georgievski has steadily built a following of more than 120,000 on social media over the past few years, mainly from sharing daily photos of the elaborate lunches he puts together for … Read more

Dead Sea Scrolls ‘mended’ with DNA from animal skin manuscripts

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The Dead Sea Scrolls are being pieced back together using DNA ‘fingerprints’ lifted from the animal skins on which they were written some 2,000 years ago. The scrolls are a collection of more than 25,000 ancient manuscript fragments, among which can be found the oldest known copies of books of the Hebrew Bible. They were first … Read more