Using X-ray technologies and custom-made software, researchers were able to read text they wrote on a fake ancient scroll designed to mimic those destroyed at Herculaneum in A. D. 79.
Source: [Live Science](https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/new-trick-could-reveal-text-on-2-000-year-old-scrolls-charred-by-eruption-of-mount-vesuvius)