OCCAM Researchers Apply Modern characterization techniques to the Study of Ancient Artifacts

OCCAM research staff, in collaboration with Queen’s University Professors Amandina Anastassiades and Cristiana Zaccagnino, have assessed the viability of utilizing a combination of specialized material characterization techniques (electron microscopy and various surface spectroscopies) to study of Roman coins from the Diniacopoulos Collection of Central and Eastern Mediterranean Antiquities.

Associated publication – Zaccagnino et al., JVST B, 36, 03F104 (2018)

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