Engineering technology revealing secrets of Roman coins

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 17:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Archaeologists and engineers are examining buried Roman coins using the latest X-ray imaging technology. Originally designed for the analysis of substantial engineering parts, such as jet turbine blades, powerful scanning equipment is being used to examine Roman coins buried in three archaeological artifacts from three UK hoards.

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