[BenLurkin]

gnip

[Buckeye McFrog]

500-year old Mexican centerfold?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The Burrito Code.

[KC_Lion]

[aces]

translation..ya put the lime in the coconut to make you feel better.

[bgill]

Geez, they could have at least super duper photographed the last page so we’d know how the story ends.

[GingisK]

So, they couldn’t erase their documents 500 years ago, and expect them to stay that way. Sounds like the modern day FBI and hard drives.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[Oatka]

But a newer technique called hyperspectral imaging was able to penetrate the layers of gesso by collecting information from all frequencies and wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum. The researchers were finally able to view the underlying images without damaging the pages, and discovered a collection of images, inked in red, yellow and orange.

Cool.

Some years ago I read where they took confetti-like remnants of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and using DNA of the lambskin, were able to piece together another couple of pages. Amazing. I wonder if they used the technique that scanned in broken pieces of pottery and then using a computer program, matched them together, saving TONS on mind-numbing manual effort.

[epluribus_2]

It is the yucatec maya version ofor the Seldon Plan, but Foundation Psychohistorians. Forgot the Cortez algorithm when first distributed to Arcturus.