Watch scientists decipher burnt scrolls without unrolling them
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TL;DR - Researchers created and burned papyrus samples to develop a method that could help decipher text inside unopened Herculaneum scrolls. The approach may enable scholars to recover fragile ancient writings without physically unrolling and damaging them.
- The team studied experimentally produced charred papyrus as a proxy for the Herculaneum scrolls.
- Their method targets text that appears to glow under imaging, although the provided excerpt does not specify the imaging technique.
- The research supports non-destructive reading of scrolls too fragile to open conventionally.
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Watch scientists decipher burnt scrolls without unrolling them
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TL;DR - Researchers created and burned papyrus samples to develop a method that could help decipher text inside unopened Herculaneum scrolls. The approach may enable scholars to recover fragile ancient writings without physically unrolling and damaging them.
- The team studied experimentally produced charred papyrus as a proxy for the Herculaneum scrolls.
- Their method targets text that appears to glow under imaging, although the provided excerpt does not specify the imaging technique.
- The research supports non-destructive reading of scrolls too fragile to open conventionally.