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Scientists ‘Virtually Unravel’ Burnt 16th Century Scroll

Posted by Jean-Yves on Oct 29, 2018
 

Scientists are on the look-out for damaged and unreadable ancient scrolls as brand new techniques have revealed the hidden text inside a severely burnt 16th century sample.

The new development, the latest in a long line of advancements in the field in recent years, has shown how ‘virtual unravelling’ can be achieved using a more autonomous approach and with scrolls that contain multiple pages.

Similarly, the new computer techniques can now handle very large data sets and deal with more complex shapes and sizes.

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