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New trick could reveal text on 2,000-year-old scrolls charred by eruption of Mount Vesuvius

New trick could reveal text on 2,000-year-old scrolls charred by eruption of Mount VesuviusWorldPing

Using 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. 79.

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