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Douglas Seiler

Retired American inventor, formerly in real estate and banking, who is a research affiliate of the University of California, Berkeley working on the imaging of carbonized papyrus.

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  • D. Seiler

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A retired inventor charred homemade scrolls to find which Herculaneum rolls X-rays can read

The ink and the burned papyrus are both carbon, so X-rays struggle to tell letters from page. In a new PLOS One study, lead added to test ink showed up clearly, and the authors want unopened scrolls screened for it.

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