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How to read a 300-year-old letter without opening it

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The team used a technique called X-ray microtomography
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Computer-generated unfolding sequence of sealed letter DB-1538. Courtesy of the Unlocking History Research Group archive. The letters are from the Brienne Collection, Sound and Vision The Hague, The Netherlands.

The team used a technique called X-ray microtomography
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In 1926, a seventeenth-century trunk containing over 2000 unclaimed letters was bequeathed to the Dutch postal museum. The letters were closed using an ancient technique called letterlocking, in which the writing paper is intricately folded and secured to become its own envelopes. Now an international team of researchers has virtually unfolded and unlocked the contents of one of the letters and the findings were published on Tuesday in ....

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Researchers virtually open and read sealed historic letters

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Researchers were able to read the contents of a letter from Jacques Sennacques to his cousin Pierre Le Pers, a French merchant in The Hague.
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The virtual unfolding technology generates 2D and 3D reconstructions of the letter.
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An international team of scholars has read an unopened letter from early modern Europe without breaking its seal or damaging it in any way using an automated computational flattening algorithm. The team, including MIT Libraries and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers and an MIT student and alumna, published their findings today in a ....

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