Reading Tiny Buddhist Scrolls Without Damaging Them By Unrolling

The scrolls come from a small Mongolian shrine found by researchers in 1927. Researchers are virtually unrolling and deciphering them using X-ray tomography, the same technique used with the Herculaneum Scrolls, which were carbonized in the volcanic eruption which destroyed Pompeii. – Artnet

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