Dead Sea scroll goes on display

One of the most important Dead Sea scrolls is going briefly on display in Jerusalem this week - more than four decades after it was last seen by the public.

The 7.3-m scroll with the text of the Bible's Book of Isaiah has been kept in a dark, temperature-controlled room at the Israel Museum since 1967. It went on display two years earlier, but was removed and replaced with a facsimile after curators noticed cracks appearing in the calfskin parchment.

The museum's curators decided to put the scroll back on display for three months as part of Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations.