X-Ray Specs for the World’s Oldest, Sealed Letters

X-Ray Specs for the World’s Oldest, Sealed Letters: A team of historians, scientists and engineers has developed a portable X-ray scanner to study 4,000-year-old letters encased in clay envelopes. By Katherine Kornei Out with the hammer, in with the X-rays: Researchers have traded brute force for technological finesse when it comes to reading ancient letters. Cuneiform is the world’s oldest written script,