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SUMMARY:Reading charcoal: Using HEP detectors to decipher papirii - Jens D
 opke (RAL)
DTSTART:20190122T150000Z
DTEND:20190122T160000Z
UID:TALK115360@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:William Fawcett
DESCRIPTION:I will introduce the problem of reading ancient documents\, in
  this particular project working on reconstruction of text from scrolls fo
 und in Herculanuem near Mt. Vesuvis. These are made from papyrus and have 
 been written on using organic inks. After the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 
 79 AD\, these been slow-cooked under exclusion of oxygen\, and hence turne
 d into lumps of charcoal. All attempts of unrolling these subjects have be
 en destructive.\n\nFirst indications show that dark-field x-ray imaging al
 lows to make the ink of these documents visible and there is good hope tha
 t this assumption holds for multi-layered documents that cannot be unrolle
 d. I will introduce dark-field x-ray imaging\, report on where we are with
  the project\, what’s lacking at the moment and where we plan to get to 
 within the next year(s).
LOCATION:Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) 
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