X-rays unfold ‘locked’ 300-year-old secret letters without opening them
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People doubled letters as envelopes to ensure the security of a document, but today we can access them without anyone knowing…
People doubled letters as envelopes to ensure the security of a document, but today we can access them without anyone knowing…
Communication through written word existed long before the days of text messages and DMs, and even then some kind of security…
Enlarge / Four vector drawings show the five-slit spiral lock mechanism used by Mary, Queen of Scots; the front and back of a…
"Virtual unfolding" allows researchers to look inside intricately folded historical letters without damaging them.
Reams of dead lettershide correspondencebeneath purposefulcuts and folds;the contents oftheir written pastlocked tightbehind…
Reams of dead lettershide correspondencebeneath purposefulcuts and folds;the contents oftheir written pastlocked tightbehind…
Reams of dead…
Everyone wants to know if there is alien life in the universe, but Earth may give us clues that if it exists it may not be the…
In the seventeenth century, which was filled with sabre rattling between France and the Dutch Republic, The Hague was an…
À l'aide d'un scanner de microtomographie à rayons X très sensible, une équipe de chercheurs a analysé quatre lettres non…
An international team of scholars has read an unopened letter from early modern Europe — without breaking its seal or damaging…
History unfolds as an interdisciplinary research team uses computational tools to examine the contents of “locked” letters. An…
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Using a highly sensitive X-ray microtomography scanner, a team of researchers has scanned four unopened letters from the…
In a world first, an international team of researchers has read an unopened letter from Renaissance Europe — without breaking…
A new technique enables scholars to unlock the secrets of long-sealed missives
Your emails might become historical evidence in a few centuries!
In July 1697, Jacques Sennacques of Lille, France, scribbled off a missive to his merchant cousin, Pierre le Pers, in The Hague.
History unfolds as an interdisciplinary research team uses computational tools to examine the contents of “locked” letters. An…
History unfolds as an interdisciplinary research team uses computational tools to examine the contents of “locked” letters. …
Com recurso a raios-X e a um algoritmo foi possível desdobrar virtualmente a carta enviada em 1697 de Lille para Haia.Uma carta…
X-ray microtomography (XMT), a scanning technology used in dental research, has virtually opened a letter that has been…
For the first time ever, researchers have virtually unfolded a sealed letter from Renaissance Europe. It has remained unopened…
In 1697, a man named Jacques Sennacque wrote a letter to his cousin, a French merchant named Pierre Le Pers, requesting a…
When I was in junior high school, in those better days before texting, kids communicated by passing intricately-folded…
‘Virtual unfolding’ is hailed a breakthrough in the study of historic documents as unopened letter from 1697 is read for the…
In de zeventiende eeuw, die bol stond van wapengekletter tussen Frankrijk en de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden, was…
Secrets of Sealed 17th Century Letters Revealed by Dental X-ray Scanners In a world first, an international team of researchers…
Sealed letters folded in intricate patterns have gone unread for more than 300 years, but now researchers have been able to…