Why is it the news?
- A leading science facility in the English countryside is helping in a bid to decipher Romanera scrolls carbonised in the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago.
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- Researchers led by antiquities decoder ProfessorBrent Seales have turned toDiamond, Britain’s nationalsynchrotron in Didcot, Oxfordshire, to examine the papyri, which are described as“fragile like butterfly wings
- Synchrotron : It is a particle accelerator which harnesses thepower of electrons to produce powerful scans