> Using their high-quality medical CT scanners, colleagues from IZW and Charité now helped to analyze the contents of the shipping containers non-destructively.

> Using their high-quality medical CT scanners, colleagues from IZW and Charité now helped to analyze the contents of the shipping containers non-destructively. "It was very exciting for all of us to finally know exactly what was inside the bamboo corsets without having to open them right away," says Daniela Schwarz, head of the study. "Until now, there was a lot of uncertainty about how to handle this material, because physical preparation really takes a lot of time, and you also don't want to destroy historical documents of the era." Right - I empathise with the idea of not wanting to damage historical artifacts. But are we stepping into a situation where a scan and then the representation of that scan to the world, is now history? Can we really add those 2 layers in, without debate? For me this is deeply problematic - it involves all sorts of levels of trust that I simply do not have. If it is impossible to personally verify whatever-it-is, and we simply have to take a lab or history department's word for it, we leave ourselves wide open to fakery. 'Dall-e: generate a picture of a rare dinosaur jaw fragment in the style of a CT medical scanner'. At least, with the 'old' way, someone somewhere has a chance of verifying whatever we are told.