New Eyeballs on Ancient Texts.

The author suggests that imaging technologies such as Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) can be used to study ancient texts. The author describes the development of RTI at Hewlett-Packard Labs and describes the process of RTI which creates an image of texts such as cuneiform tablets to be disp...

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Publicado en:Biblical Archaeology Review Vol. 37; no. 6; pp. 28 - 30
Autor principal: ZUCKERMAN, BRUCE
Formato: Opinion
Publicado: Biblical Archaeology Society Nov/Dec2011
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