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  • Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked [Amazing Tech!]

    08/20/2010 12:31:24 PM PDT · by James C. Bennett · 97 replies
    Gizmodo ^ | 20 August, 2010 | Gizmodo
       Original Greek statues were brightly painted, but after thousands of years, those paints have worn away. Find out how shining a light on the statues can be that's required to see them the way they were thousands of years ago.Although it seems impossible to think that anything could be left to discover after thousands of years of wind, sun, sand, and art students, finding the long lost patterns on a piece of ancient Greek sculpture can be as easy as shining a lamp on it. A technique called ‘raking light' has been used to analyze art for a long...