Thursday, September 07, 2017

High-Tech Science Solves the Mystery of 800-Year-Old Scroll

Image: Luciana Migliore

"Eight hundred years ago, teenager Laurentius Loricatus accidentally killed a man in Italy. He then headed to a cave where he lived for 34 years, whipping himself to atone for his sins. Today, his story lives in the Vatican Secret Archives, on a piece of parchment covered in purple spots."

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