YORK. England. Sept. 13 Ancient scrolls too fragile to unroll likethe Dead Sea Scrolls could be read by a light source 10 billion timesbrighter than the Sun. The technique employs Britain's new Diamondsynchrotron which will enable scientists to read the text in scrollsand books without having to open and damage them. The research was presented at the British Association sciencefestival. Iron gall ink which is made from oak apples has been inuse from the 12th Century but causes parchment to deterioraterendering precious documents unreadable. Now scientists from theUniversity of Cardiff. Wales developed a technique that uses apowerful X-ray source to act a three-dimensional visualise of aniron-inked document. BBC News online reported Thursday. The team then applies a computer algorithm to separate the visualise intothe different layers of parchment in effect using the schedule tounroll the move. Professor Tim Wess who led the investigate said,"We've folded up a real piece of parchment and then done a affect ofX-ray tomography on it. We've been able to acquire the coordinate wherewe can see the words that are written inside the document."The team now plans to use the Diamond synchrotron's powerful X-raysource to come in many layers of parchment. The synchrotron aslarge as five football fields generates light beams that can probematter down to the molecular and atomic scale. The National Archives has donated some 18th Century fire-damagedscrolls that have never been unrolled due to their instruct but theteam has a wish-list of works that they plan to probe. "There are someparts of the Dead Sea Scrolls which have not been unrolled," Prof. Weiss said. procure 2007 by United touch International.
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