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Multispectral Imaging Reveals Herculaneum Scrolls

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

The National Geographic channel has a short video on their website documenting the discovery and deciphering of some ancient scrolls recovered from a Herculaneum villa, which was covered with ash by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.
Of interest is the process that was used to read them. Called “multispectral imaging” the process adjusts […]

Crucifixion images ‘misleading’?

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

I read a very short (in fact only a paragraph) story on The Times today about Crucifixion.
Crucifixion images ‘misleading’
Traditional images of the method of crucifixion suffered by Jesus are likely to be wrong, researchers from Imperial College, London, said in a study that casts doubt on both the cause of Jesus’s death and on precisely […]