More than 200 years ago, a scroll damaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius was unrolled and pasted onto cardboard, even though it had writing on... Ancient Greek Scroll's Hidden Contents Revealed ...

More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the remains of an ancient papyrus scroll onto cardboard to preserve it. But the scroll, a history of Plato's Academy, also had writing on the back. Now scholars ...

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The parts of the scroll were scanned using shortwave-infrared hyperspectral imaging. (A. Tournié, Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation) More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the remains of an ...