**Breaking News** Metal used in ink 400 years earlier than previously thought

Posted On: Mar 22nd, 2016 at 13:54

**Breaking news**
Italy
Scrolls found relatively well preserved in Pompeii have shown that metal was used in ink at least 400 years earlier than previously thought.
Scientists are attempting to read the words on the scrolls by using X-rays “100 billion times brighter” than those used in hospitals. I bet no one is standing in the way when that machine is turned on!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35865470