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The D’Elmina castle in the 17th century. Illustration: National Archive The Dutch national archive has put almost two million documents and drawings online which relate to the Netherlands’ slavery past after an eight-year project to preserve and digitalise them. The documents cover a variety of companies involved in the slave trade and include lost documents about Fort Elmina on the coast of what is now Ghana, which was a central point in the trade of enslaved peoples. Part of this archive resurfaced in London during the digitalization process. The documents were part of the Prize Papers,...

Scientists read 300-year-old sealed letter without opening it "Virtual unfolding" allows researchers to look inside intricately folded historical letters without damaging them. Scientists are using technology to read centuries-old letters sealed using "letterlocking." Nature Communications In a letter, dated July 31, 1697, Jacques Sennacques asks his cousin Pierre Le Pers, a French merchant in The Hague, for a certified copy of a death notice for Daniel Le Pers. That's no revelatory request by any means, but for the past 300 years, the lette...

In 1697, a man wrote to a merchant in the Netherlands to request a copy of an official death certificate for his cousin. The tightly folded letter has never been opened, but researchers...

"Virtual unfolding" allows researchers to look inside intricately folded historical letters without damaging them.