🔬🏺 Reading the Past in Light: How Spectroscopy Unlocks Ancient Artifacts
Quick answer: archaeologists used to learn about ancient objects by cutting them open. Now they use light. Spectroscopic techniques — Raman, X-ray fluorescence, FT-IR, and LIBS — analyze the chemistry of artifacts and sites without destroying them, revealing where objects came from, how they were made, and how old they are. What spectroscopy does for […]
