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There's a book (I believe it is "The Archimedes Codex : Revealing The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Palimpsest" by William Noel and Reviel Netz), that I read
by liendolucas 4y ago
There's a book (I believe it is "The Archimedes Codex : Revealing The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Palimpsest" by William Noel and Reviel Netz), that I read many years ago exactly about this topic. In the book they describe that they used a similar approach to the one used for the vesuvius challenge: they x-rayed the whole palimpsest and then looked for imprints below the pages for traces of the original treat that was copied by a previous scribe. Very interesting read.
- rob74 4y agoThe approach may be similar, but in this case you can at least separate the individual pages, whereas the Herculaneum scrolls are lumps of carbonized papyrus (lower quality than parchment) where you can't even be sure where the writing is located, so a much bigger challenge...
- Bayart 4y agoThere's been a lot of progress on unrolling with a combination of X-ray scanning and 3d modelling. Nowadays AI is being added to the mix.