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David Messinger

  • April 8, 2019

    13th century piece of parchment paper

    Scientists use multispectral imaging to uncover lost text from manuscripts in Croatia

    Croatia has a treasure trove of historically significant manuscripts, but after 800 years of fading ink and worms eating their parchment, much of the text has become impossible to read. Scientists from RIT are using multispectral imaging to make the writing legible once again and preserve the important information the manuscripts hold.