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@Oliver Schick
This is really interesting:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/04/x-rays-reveal-medieval-manuscripts
The application that is talked about in the article is to library books in which old manuscripts were used to create book bindings, but there is also still a number of unread scrolls from the sensational find of the Epicurean library at Herculaneum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri
You can see how difficult it has been to read these properly. I wonder if this new method will work on them. Various other methods have been tried, the latest one in 2015, but perhaps this new one will bring further improvement?