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Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging
- lxe 11y agoThis was a pleasure to read. The researchers are tasked with reading letters on a scroll burned to a complete char. The progress they've made is incredible.
- AlbertoGP 11y agoThis has been going on for a while, with several HN submissions over the years, but this time the article ("Received 17 May 2014, Accepted 19 November 2014, Published 20 January 2015") has pictures of the letters that can be seen, still quite fuzzy: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150120/ncomms6895/images/ncomms6895-f3.jpg http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150120/ncomms6895/images/n... http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150120/ncomms6895/images/ncomms6895-f4.jpg http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150120/ncomms6895/images/n...