Multispectral Imaging of damaged texts from ancient civilizations has proceeded without interruption at Brigham Young University from the 1995 until the present. Begun as an initiative of F.A.R.M.S. (now the Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship), MSI has been managed by scholars in the College of Humanities since 2001. The College’s Ancient Textual Imaging Group currently directs and conducts the application of MSI technology at BYU. An exciting suite of projects has been maintained and augmented. Here a brief overview is intended to encourage contact with the ATIGroup and its directorate.

A clear thread leads through past imaging projects at the Italian National Library (Herculaneum Papyri), Bonampak, American Center for Oriental Research (Petra Church Scrolls), etc. and into the ongoing imaging projects being pursued by members of the ATIGroup. Scholars all over the world recognize the ATIGroup’s work as first-rate. The ATIGroup’s recognized strength lies especially in a persistent determination to join its leading technology with interested scholars, papyrologists and philologists whose chief interest is the textual content.