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Archaeologists Identify Traces of 2k-Year-Old Pompeii Love Note (smithsonianmag.com)
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Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) [1], a technique that involves combining many images taken with different light sources, researchers have deciphered 79 additional inscriptions. “This project highlights urban communication, especially from sections of the population that do not usually appear in literature or official inscriptions,”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial_texture_mapping