To read 2,000-year-old burned scrolls, scientists burn their own

Researchers fabricated a carbonized papyrus scroll, virtually reading its leaded ink via X-ray tomography. This proves lead improves reading success and creates synthetic models to develop text-detection algorithms for Herculaneum scrolls.

by Robert Sanders

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-year-scrolls-scientists.html

Original article: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0353485

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