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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 05 > Small company’s camera snaps big-time images of ancient prizes

Small company’s camera snaps big-time images of ancient prizes

High-resolution pictures make it possible to scrutinize text from 3,000 years ago

By Catherine Saillant / The Bulletin
December 5, 2008

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Researchers gathered recently in a small, darkened lab near Santa Barbara, nervously pacing as a digital camera snapped hundreds of images of a shard of pottery resting a few feet below the lens.

There was good reason for the anxiety. The terra-cotta fragment is....

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