Digital versions of some of the most significant religious manuscripts in the world - including a 2,000-year-old copy of the Ten Commandments - have been released for the first time.
Cambridge University has published the documents through its digital library, which aims to make 25,000 historically important images freely available.
The latest release focuses on faith traditions - including important texts from Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism - many of the manuscripts being made available are also of great political, cultural and historical importance.
The new additions include the Nash Papyrus - fragments of the commandments - and the Codex Bezae - a remarkable ancient copy of the New Testament.
A £1.5 million lead gift from the Polonsky Foundation in June 2010 made possible the sophisticated technical infrastructure underpinning the digital library.
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