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A Berkeley SETI affiliate burned his own scrolls to test X-ray reading against known text
Douglas Seiler carbonized modern papyrus inscribed with text he already knew, then scanned it to show that lead in the ink gives X-ray CT a signal strong enough to read through a closed roll.
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