10 Questions
Mocella claimed to read only ______
letters
Some scholars are cautious about the letters, not least because the group did not publish enough information for others to replicate the ______
analysis
Seales was chasing a new idea for reading carbon-based ______
ink
Seales concluded that the findings were a ______
bust
X-ray phase-contrast tomography is a highly sensitive form of ______ that can detect subtle density changes in a material
imaging
Seales provided custom-designed ______ for the scrolls, built using data from his CT scans
cases
Seales thinks the researchers were seeing 'ghosts'—random patterns in the papyrus’ fiber structure that just happen to look like ______
letters
Delattre took Banana Boy and another scroll to ______ without Seales
Grenoble
Phase-contrast tomography alone is not sufficient to read the Herculaneum scrolls in any meaningful ______
way
News stories around the world reported that Herculaneum scrolls had been ______ at last
deciphered
Explore the use of X-ray phase-contrast tomography in reading carbon-based ink, a sensitive imaging technique that can detect density changes caused by applying ink to papyrus. Discover how a particle accelerator like Synchrotron Soleil can produce the required beam for this advanced imaging method.
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