The Upper Room: What Hightech Tells Us About the Walls of Jerusalem

What do modern image technologies have to do with centuries-old pilgrims' graffiti? With high-tech cameras and digital analysis, researchers managed to make hidden inscriptions visible in the hall of the last Supper – and thus bring out interesting stories from the Middle Ages. The article The Upper Room: What High-Tech Tells Us About the Walls of Jerusalem first appeared on ingenieur.de - Job Market and News Portal for Engineers.

An international team of researchers has managed to identify and analyze dozens of medieval graffiti in one of the most sacred places of Christianity, the Upper Room of Jerusalem, the place where tradition says that the last dinner was held. On top of Mount Zion, in Jerusalem, is a place of extraordinary religious significance [...]