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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...

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

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Loading video... VIDEO: Computer-generated unfolding animation of sealed letter DB-1538. In our paper we describe how "virtual unfolding " was used to read the contents of sealed letterpackets from 17th-century Europe without physically opening... view more  Credit: Courtesy of the Unlocking History Research Group archive. In a world first, an international team of researchers has read an unopened letter from Renaissance Europe - without breaking its seal or damaging it in any way. The research, published in Nature Communications, describes how an X-ray scanner used in dental resear...

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...