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• Powerful "light scope" used to unearth ancient texts

  Published: September 13, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Ancient Texts, Ancienttexts, Diamond Synchrotron, Diamondsynchrotron, Documents, Research, Science, Scrolls, University Of Cardiff, Universityofcardiff, X Ray

  Filed under: Misc. Gadgets According to the BBC, scientists at the University of Cardiff have developed a method of reading ancient, highly-sensitive texts (such as the Dead Sea Scrolls) by projecting beams of light ten-billion times brighter than the sun into the parchment. The new technique combines a powerful X-ray-like device called the

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