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This article from Cornell University News Service presents an interdisciplinary effort among physicists and classicists to read a weathered 2000-year-old inscription on stone with x-ray fluorescence. The article describes how a powerful x-ray light source at Cornell produced fluorescence in trace elements in the inscribed stone and includes images showing the original inscription. The article is written for the general public.
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![]() <a href="https://www.compadre.org/informal/items/detail.cfm?ID=8221">Cornell Chronicle Online. X-Ray Fluorescent Recovers Ancient Text. Ithaca: Cornell Chronicle Online, July 8, 2007.</a>
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![]() X-Ray Fluorescent Recovers Ancient Text (Cornell Chronicle Online, Ithaca, 2008), <https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/08/x-ray-technology-sheds-light-ancient-stone-inscriptions>.
![]() X-Ray Fluorescent Recovers Ancient Text. (2007, July 8). Retrieved March 23, 2025, from Cornell Chronicle Online: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/08/x-ray-technology-sheds-light-ancient-stone-inscriptions
![]() Cornell Chronicle Online. X-Ray Fluorescent Recovers Ancient Text. Ithaca: Cornell Chronicle Online, July 8, 2007. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/08/x-ray-technology-sheds-light-ancient-stone-inscriptions (accessed 23 March 2025).
![]() X-Ray Fluorescent Recovers Ancient Text. Ithaca: Cornell Chronicle Online, 2008. 8 July 2007. 23 Mar. 2025 <https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/08/x-ray-technology-sheds-light-ancient-stone-inscriptions>.
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Title = {X-Ray Fluorescent Recovers Ancient Text},
Publisher = {Cornell Chronicle Online},
Volume = {2025},
Number = {23 March 2025},
Month = {July 8, 2007},
Year = {2008}
}
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