Priceless parchments, religious mystics, and a copper map leading to lost temple treasure. The plot of the next "Indiana Jones" movie? No. It's the real-life story of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Over the years, scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls have analyzed the ancient parchments with various methods: for example, X-rays, multispectral imaging, “virtual unfolding,” and paleography, i.e., ...