yohanfunk

Hello Cerys

I'm fascinated by your work. For a long time, I looked at ways of recovering text from the scrolls of herculaneum. The technique I thought of was to cast the scroll in resin, then use a cnc machine to cut a layer off one at a time, photographing each layer and reconstructing them all into an image.

Other than the major flaw that the scroll is destroyed in the process, do you think my technique would work in recovering the entire data of the scroll?

I read recently that a 3d xray technique was being developed which sounds lots better than the above- I'm just looking for validation, if there is any, for my idea. If nothing else, it could serve as a moral exercise, asking if the destruction of an artefact can be justified in revealing its secrets.

Personally, I'd argue no.

Do you get spots? My spots generally occur around hairs / ingrowing hairs (the devil). If not, do you believe you are the next step in evolution?