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Dr. Brent Seales' fascinating work to reveal the hidden text inside a burned scroll was featured this week on Discovery Channel Canada. Watch the interview and hear the fascinating details of how he and his students did it: discovery.ca/Shows/Daily-Pl…. (28 minute mark)


To learn more about Dr. Seales research program to read the scrolls from Herculaneum as featured on last night's @60Minutes, visit our website, vis.uky.edu/digital-restor…


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American Brent Seales and two Italian scholars, Graziano Ranocchia and Vito Mocella, are fierce competitors all claiming they had the same idea: to use a super powerful X-ray, called a synchrotron, to reveal the contents of the scrolls of Herculaneum.


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Can technology unravel the secrets sealed by Mt. Vesuvius 2,000 years ago? Scholars believe the damaged scrolls of Herculaneum could contain lost works of Greek philosophy, Roman poetry, or early Christian writings. cbsn.ws/2pY7OGx


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Brent Seales believes his virtual unrolling software can reveal the contents of the damaged papyrus scrolls of Herculaneum because he’s already proven it on an ancient Hebrew scroll His software resurrected the oldest text of the Bible as we know it today.


Our latest documentary and spiritual successor to "Coal in Kentucky" is now available on YouTube! youtu.be/ApwyKfmkftA

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What do the Camry and Corvette have in common? Made In Kentucky: youtu.be/ApwyKfmkftA #Kentucky

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The VisCenter Twitter account was posting spam this morning. Be cautious of any links that were sent to you within the past 24 hours.


New Video: Vis Center faculty member Nathan Jacobs is looking for ways to understand images in new ways. reveal.uky.edu/jacobs_nathan


Vis Center researcher is developing better online security. tinyurl.com/lsr5kjk


Watch our latest documentary on aeronautics research on KET tonight! tinyurl.com/mo5vqeq


Check our our faculty researcher Kevin Donohue's work in solving the cocktail problem. tinyurl.com/kek3p7r


Though FoLIO will end, we’ll always have Paris bit.ly/17q0UJa


Vis Center Director Search bit.ly/Zmr7qX


Come visit us this Sat. for Engineers Day! The Vis Center will be open from 9-1 with parking right in front available. Hope to see you then!


Welcome back to the spring semester! We are glad to see our students coming back.


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