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X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls
The objects were a part of traditional Mongolian nomadic shrines.
But the team at Germany’s Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin(HZB) research institute didn’t risk any damage by physically unrolling it—they peered inside using a combination of 3D X-ray tomography and AI assistance. Credit: Journal of Cultural Heritage Until only a few years ago, accessing the scrolls required archeologists to extract and unroll the delicate papers without compromising the materials—an extremely risky venture. The scanner relies on synchrotron tomography, an advanced imaging method that uses hard X-rays to compile 3D representations of an object, beginning at the microscopic level.
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