A Bay Area lab is using modern technology to recover history that had literally been erased.
The x-ray beam that comes out of a tube hits a specific sample, generating data about the elements sitting in it.
The machine generated at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park can looking deeply into a piece of parchment, beyond what can be observed through the naked eye and detected a faded map of the stars written thousands of years ago in ancient Greece, that was then erased.
The x-rays can obtain the composition of the metals and inks that were there originally, leading to the uncovering of those missing characters.
Scott Budman has more in the video player above.
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