# Seales 2016: From damage to discovery via virtual unwrapping: Reading the scroll from En-Gedi

> William Brent Seales, Clifford Seth Parker, Michael Segal et al., 2016. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The proof of concept the Herculaneum…

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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.

**Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge** Articledoi: **[10.1126/sciadv.1601247](https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601247)** Checked against the original0

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The proof of concept the Herculaneum work extends.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[Seales and colleagues virtually unwrap the charred En-Gedi scroll](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/events/EVT0D367T147PPX/seales-and-colleagues-virtually-unwrap-the-charred-en-gedi)

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[W. Brent Seales](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri/people/FIG0D367PVJ4M45/w-brent-seales)

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[The Herculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/herculaneum-papyri)

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## Cite it

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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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[Read it free at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601247)

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