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Title: "Virtual unwrapping" of a burnt scroll
Post by: Duncan Head on September 23, 2016, 09:50:23 AM

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/21/jubilation-as-scientists-use-virtual-unwrapping-to-read-burnt-ancient-scroll
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/9/e1601247

Unfortunately the scroll turned out to be a copy of Leviticus rather than anything new, but the technique's amazing. Compare http://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=1591.0

Title: Re: "Virtual unwrapping" of a burnt scroll
Post by: Swampster on September 23, 2016, 05:55:10 PM

We live in an age of marvels.

Title: Re: "Virtual unwrapping" of a burnt scroll
Post by: Dangun on September 27, 2016, 07:55:00 AM

Quite awesome.
Now we just need to find an incinerated Book of Yahweh's battles,Claudius' histories, Pliny's German Wars, Polybius....

Title: Re: "Virtual unwrapping" of a burnt scroll
Post by: Erpingham on September 27, 2016, 10:34:02 AM

Lots of incinerated stuff from Pompeii still to look at, so you never know.

Title: Re: "Virtual unwrapping" of a burnt scroll
Post by: Mark G on September 27, 2016, 08:59:39 PM

I'm still holding out for a pope who gamed in his youth releasing a load of lost histories from the Vatican.

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