March
02
/ 2021
For the first time ever, researchers have virtually unfolded a sealed letter from Renaissance Europe. It has remained unopened for 300 years, and thanks to their innovative computational approach, they didn’t need to break any seals or damage the artifact in any way to unlock the personal story of a real person who wrote it centuries ago. Tooth Scanner Gains a New Usage – X-Raying History The interdisciplinary team used an X-ray scanner, which is more commonly applied in dental research, to 'virtually unfold' the sealed letter and read the contents. They used an extremely sensitive X-ray microtomography scanner, which was developed at Queen Mary University of London's dental research labs, to scan unopened letters that come from a 17th-century
