Parchment

Scripture

The Scrolls of Augsburg

Inside the synagogue on Halderstrasse in Augsburg, in the small hours of 10 November 1938, the caretaker was made to unlock his own front door. Twenty or thirty men pushed past him,…

Transmission

Raman Spectroscopy and XRF Imaging of Biblical Parchments

Two analytical techniques — Raman spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence, known by their respective acronyms RS and XRF — have, over the past two decades, become principal instruments in the scientific study of…