High tech, old papyrus.(using multispectral imaging to decipher ancient scrolls from Herculaneum)(Brief Article)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: April 9, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

The people of Herculaneum hardly had a chance. In the early-morning August darkness of A.D. 79, the rumbling volcano belched a river of mud and ash, burying the terrified residents and one of the Roman Empire's most luxurious communities under 75 feet of debris.

Entombed along with the unlucky citizens was one of the empire's premier philosophy libraries. Ironically, the disaster that buried Herculaneum and neighboring Pompeii actually preserved the collection of some 1,500 papyrus scrolls for almost 2,000 years. Badly charred, compressed by tons of rock, and damaged by water, ...

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