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IN 1970 archaeologists digging at Ein Gedi, an ancient settlement on the shores of what is now called the Dead Sea, dug up the ark of a synagogue that had stood on the site from about 800BC until it was destroyed by fire in around 600AD. Within was a trove of scrolls but sadly, though the ark had protected them from the worst of the blaze, they were badly scorched. They were, indeed, so damaged that any attempt to handle them simply made things worse. That left archaeologists with a cruel dilemma: attempt to read their discoveries, which would destroy them, or preserve them as found, but remain ignorant of what they said.

Technology, however, marches on. In a paper just published in Science Advances, a team led by William Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky, describe how they have managed to read one of the charred scrolls without having to open it—or, indeed, to touch it at all.
ark: n. 方舟;避难所
synagogue: n. 犹太教会堂
trove: n. 被发现的东西;收藏的东西
scrolls: n. 卷轴;
blaze: n. 火焰, 烈火
scorch: v. 烧焦;使枯萎;挖苦
charred: adj. 烧黑了的,烧焦的

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