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From damage to discovery via virtual unwrapping: Reading the scroll from En-Gedi
William Brent Seales, Clifford Seth Parker, Michael Segal et al., 2016. Science Advances 2(9), e1601247.
The first complete virtual unwrapping of a charred scroll: micro-CT and segmentation recover the opening of Leviticus from the burnt En-Gedi scroll, whose ink contains metal and so shows in X-ray.
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The proof of concept the Herculaneum work extends.
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Seales, W. B., Parker, C. S., Segal, M., Tov, E., Shor, P., & Porath, Y. (2016). From damage to discovery via virtual unwrapping: Reading the scroll from En-Gedi. Science Advances 2(9), e1601247. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601247
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Seales, William Brent et al.. “From damage to discovery via virtual unwrapping: Reading the scroll from En-Gedi.” Science Advances 2(9), e1601247 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601247.