"Virtual unwrapping" of a burnt scroll

[Duncan Head]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/21/jubilation-as-scientists-use-virtual-unwrapping-to-read-burnt-ancient-scroll
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/9/e1601247

Unfortunately the scroll turned out to be a copy of Leviticus rather than anything new, but the technique's amazing.   Compare http://forum.soa.org.uk/index.php?topic=1591.0

[Swampster]

We live in an age of marvels.

[Dangun]

Quite awesome.
Now we just need to find an incinerated Book of Yahweh's battles,Claudius' histories, Pliny's German Wars, Polybius....

[Erpingham]

Lots of incinerated stuff from Pompeii still to look at, so you never know.

[Mark G]

I'm still holding out for a pope who gamed in his youth releasing a load of lost histories from the Vatican.