U.K. particle accelerator could reveal secrets of ancient scrolls

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 butterfly wings
  • Synchrotron : It is a particle accelerator which harnesses thepower of electrons to produce powerful scans
Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 4th Oct 2019
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