Scientists hope to digitally unravel scrolls charred by Vesuvius with light 10 billion times brighter than the sun
Scientists from the University of Kentucky say they’re working to perfect a technique to digitally unravel fragile ancient texts that haven’t been read in nearly 2,000 years. W. Brent Seales, who heads the University of Kentucky’s Digital Restoration Initiative, told CNN he and his research team just returned from a trip to England where they took detailed images of the scrolls from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, using a facility called a synchotron. This synchotron, the Diamond Light Source, accelerates…
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