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Revealing metallic ink in Herculaneum papyri

Emmanuel Brun, Marine Cotte, Jonathan Wright et al., 2016. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(14), 3751-3754.

X-ray fluorescence and related synchrotron analyses show lead in the ink of some Herculaneum fragments, which changes what X-ray methods can detect.

MYS0D367N4W34X9 · mystery · click to copyMHerculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius ChallengeArticledoi: 10.1073/pnas.1519958113Checked against the original0

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Evidence that ink composition varies across the library.

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Brun, E., Cotte, M., Wright, J., Ruat, M., Tack, P., Vincze, L., Ferrero, C., Delattre, D., & Mocella, V. (2016). Revealing metallic ink in Herculaneum papyri. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(14), 3751-3754. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519958113
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