WorldPingUsing X-ray technologies and custom-made software, researchers were able to read text they wrote on a fake ancient scroll designed to mimic those destroyed at Herculaneum in A.D.
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New trick could reveal text on 2,000-year-old scrolls charred by eruption of Mount Vesuvius
We may soon be able to read long-lost ancient scrolls damaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
AI reveals novel nighttime feeding behaviors in right whales
Conserving just 35% of the nation's waterways could sustain freshwater biodiversity
Tyrannosaurus rex teeth reveal a body temperature close to the human average
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WorldPingX-ray technology and artificial intelligence—along with the discovery of lead in the ink of fragments from a collection of ancient Roman scrolls—could soon help scientists read long-lost texts buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, accord…
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