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Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging
Vito Mocella, Emmanuel Brun, Claudio Ferrero et al., 2015. Nature Communications 6, 5895.
Reports letter-shaped signals inside a closed Herculaneum roll from phase-contrast tomography at the ESRF, the first claim of text inside an unopened roll.
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Mocella, V., Brun, E., Ferrero, C., & Delattre, D. (2015). Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging. Nature Communications 6, 5895. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6895
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Mocella, Vito et al.. “Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging.” Nature Communications 6, 5895 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6895.