Tudor parchment burned and fused together is deciphered by X-ray

A 16th-century scroll which was burned and fused together hundreds of years ago can finally be read thanks to a new X-ray technique. Cardiff University experts deployed the scanning method to'virtually unravel' the long-lost document which could not be opened without destroying it. The scans reveal'blobs' in the texts which can then be deciphered using advanced computer algorithms. The reading of the scroll, which had been charred and damaged centuries ago, revealed records of a country house in Tudor England. The researchers' technique, which involves collaborators from the UK and across the world, firstly involves using X-ray tomography.