Pioneers of new software for reading damaged parchment and scrolls are now deploying a CT scanner at the Morgan Library, hoping to recover Coptic writings dating back at least to 600 A.D.
from NYT > Books http://ift.tt/2lXCkx7
Saturday, 6 January 2018
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