[SunkenCiv]

Researchers virtually unrolled a silk-wrapped scroll (left), revealing a strip (right) with the text "Om mani padme hum."

Arlt and Kantzenbach 2025, Journal of Cultural Heritage

[Red Badger]

“Om mani padme hum,”

I say that all the time.................

[SauronOfMordor]

I believe these techniques were originally developed to read the Dead Sea Scrolls and scrolls from Pompeii.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/buried-ash-vesuvius-scrolls-are-being-read-new-xray-technique-180969358/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cw44V49Fz9U