Photos: Christopher Columbus Likely Saw This 1491 Map
Reading the text
Finally, researchers were able to read the text on the India portion of the map with this processing technique.
Northeastern Asia
The earlier shown section of northeastern Asia, shown here processed with multispectral imaging.
Hard day's night
Researchers take multispectral images of the map at Yale University's Beinecke Library.
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