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comment by DarkLinkXXXX
DarkLinkXXXX  ·  3397 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Is Digitized

But how did they digitize it without opening it? I'd really like to know.





iza  ·  3397 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think they did open it in this case, but it wasn't normally allowed because the regular wear would be too much.

But there was this effort to read an ancient carbonized scroll: X-rays reveal words in Vesuvius-baked scrolls