This was every Chinese landscape painting scroll rolled, as it were, into one.
Using XPCT, Vito Mocella and others revealed letters from the Greek alphabet and several distinctive words on two fire-damaged scrolls, one rolled, the other unrolled.
So they began scrolling through five rolls of microfilm, looking, first, for a woman born in Iowa and, second, for a woman whose first name was Dola.
The paintings are done on sheets of clear plastic, which Ms. Demsky sometimes rolls into scrolls or cylinders.
Brent Seales, denied the scientific glory of being the first to see inside the rolled scrolls, has been focussing on the software side of the problem.
This is where a technique like X-ray computed tomography, which could penetrate the rolled scrolls, would come in handy.
By the beginning of the Han dynasty, the chief writing materials were clay tablets, silk cloth, and rolled scrolls made from bamboo strips sewn together with hempen string; these were passed through drilled holes and secured with clay stamps.
We're all — more than 1.5 million of us thus far — watching on two live webcams affixed near the nest and "chatting" in a swiftly scrolling Twitter-like conversation that rolls alongside the bird's-eye view.
I slipped cheese and bacon rolls and vegemite scrolls into paper bags for corporate types, wrapped up apple and walnut logs for middle-aged mothers.
On a table were seven file boxes of piano rolls, which looked like scrolls.
