It's definitely one of the most fascinating things I've seen here.
The challenge is an amazing example of what today's technology can do. We have rolled up papyrus scrolls that were carbonized two thousand years ago. They look just like bits of charcoal and they're so fragile that any attempt to physically unroll them would be quite destructive.
Yet our technology allows us to read their contents. That's fascinating, and gets even better considering how many of those scrolls are likely new texts to us.
The challenge is an amazing example of what today's technology can do. We have rolled up papyrus scrolls that were carbonized two thousand years ago. They look just like bits of charcoal and they're so fragile that any attempt to physically unroll them would be quite destructive.
Yet our technology allows us to read their contents. That's fascinating, and gets even better considering how many of those scrolls are likely new texts to us.