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Updated: The team used a technique called X-ray microtomography Share Article AAA 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 (Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. Click here.) In 1926, a seventeenth-century trunk containing over 2000 unclaimed letters was bequeathed to the Dutch postal m...

Credits: Image: Courtesy of MIT Libraries Caption: 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. Caption: The virtual unfolding technology generates 2D and 3D reconstructions of the letter. Previous image Next image 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 flatte...