A few years back, Belgian researchers announced a technology that allowed ancient sounds to be recovered from the grooves in pottery. The concept is much like a vinyl LP: as the pot spins, sound vibrations are gently etched into the fabric of the pot, giving us a record of the ambient sounds of an ancient Roman pottery workshop.
Amazing stuff!
01 April 2010
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I'll be the first to call it: Poisson d'avril!
ReplyDeleteC'est vrai (malheureusement)!
ReplyDeleteThis is an April fools joke. Sorry
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, please note the date of (re)publication.
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