Welsh team shine super X-rays on Dead Sea Scrolls.(News)

From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: September 13, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: By John Von Radowitz

The hidden secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls could be unlocked by Welsh scientists using super-powerful X-rays. The Diamond Light Source (DLS) is a machine the size of five football pitches that generates X-rays - a type of high energy light - 100 billion times brighter than those in a hospital.

Scientists have developed a way of using the beams to read rolled-up parchments too fragile to be unfolded. The technique has already been used successfully to transcribe a number of 18th-century Scottish legal documents from the National Archive.

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