Using a tomography machine, researchers who read the 500-year-old ancient texts were scorched

They encourage houses and museums to send letters hard to read to them, all will be decoded!

How to recover a scorched scroll, rolled into a rigid, 500-year-old lump? By science! Researchers have used to read the content hidden in a scorched roll of paper that has existed since the 16th century.

An ancient writing was burnt.

For a long time, a team of scientists at Cardiff University, Wales, has tried to perfect the skills of using equipment to read the contents of ancient texts that were damaged, or too fragile to be able to Open to read in the usual way. First, they use a tomography machine to get thousands of tiny images of paper rolls. Putting images into an algorithm, they can decipher letters, words and images in each layer of paper.

By the way, they read the scroll that was damaged by fire in the 16th century, found in Dissenter Heyword, in Norwich, England. The written record of the manor's history, including the purchase and sale of land, those who illegally entered the protected campus .

The content inside the scroll was damaged by fire in the 16th century.

The method of reading text content in paper files, ancient paper rolls, has been available since 2013, first applied to a roll of paper that has been badly damaged by water. But this time is especially difficult: burnt paper sets many pages stuck together into overlapping layers of coal.

The writing is inside the ancient writing.

"Reading the scroll taken from Diss Heyword is a real challenge, it consists of 4 parchment and many other layers of paper, making it easy for words from one page to another," said Professor Paul Rosin from the research group. save say. "And yet, the old paper roll is also discolored and folded, so it is covered by soot. But we have proven that even with such difficult texts, we can still extract information. believe from them ".

Researchers at Cardiff University are very proud of what they do, they encourage scholars and historians around the world to send the damaged ancient texts to them. By technology, they will read the words that people thought had disappeared over time.