FOCUS ON THE ON-SITE STUDY OF ANCIENT WALL-INSCRIPTIONS "There has been a surge of studies in ancient graffiti, and that's very exciting," says historian Rebecca Benefiel, initiator of The Ancient Graffiti Project, a user-friendly platform that digitizes inscriptions found at Pompeii and the nearby Herculaneum. New technology is opening up further possibilities for ancient graffiti research, namely the use of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) which uses special lighting to expose scratches in plaster that the naked eye can no longer see. Ancient graffiti reveals scenes of everyday life in Pompeii | DW.com
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