Computer imaging techniques are commonly used to preserve and share readable
manuscripts, but capturing writing locked away in ancient, deteriorated documents poses an …

Since the very beginnings of the digital humanities, Papyrology has been in the vanguard of
the application of information technologies to its own scientific purposes, for both theoretical …

There is a large body of historical documents that are too fragile to be opened or unrolled,
making their contents inaccessible. Recent improvements in X-ray scanning technology and …

Multispectral imaging—a method for acquiring image data over a series of wavelengths
across the light spectrum—is becoming a valuable tool within the cultural and heritage …

The coating technique, supposedly invented by Chinese papermakers no later than the 3rd
century AD, greatly improved paper sheets' qualities of color, texture, writability, and …

We present a complete software pipeline for revealing the hidden texts of the Herculaneum
papyri using X-ray CT images. This enhanced virtual unwrapping pipeline combines …

'Venice Time Machine'is an international program whose objective is transforming the
'Archivio di Stato'–80 km of archival records documenting every aspect of 1000 years of …

We present a fundamental development step of a new technique to read and digitize ancient
handwritten documents. Chemical analysis by x-ray fluorescence and x-ray tomography …

In this paper, X-ray microtomography, scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive
spectroscopy, second harmonic generation imaging microscopy, Fourier transform infrared …

I'm a physicist, specialist in scientific investigations for Cultural Heritage. I'm currently Post-
Doc at CNR-SCITEC in Perugia and I'm working on hyperspectral and XRF investigation of …