{"id":1409,"date":"2011-07-23T01:11:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T01:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2011-07-23T01:11:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T01:11:43","slug":"national-archives-conservators-reveal-previously-illegible-text-in-magna-carta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2011\/07\/23\/national-archives-conservators-reveal-previously-illegible-text-in-magna-carta\/","title":{"rendered":"National Archives Conservators Reveal Previously Illegible Text in Magna Carta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full July 20, 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/press\/press-releases\/2011\/nr11-152.html\">press release<\/a> about the\u00a0 conservation treatment, re-encasement and public display of <em>Magna Carta <\/em>conducted by National Archives senior conservators Terry Boone and Morgan Zinsmeister. The project manager is supervisory conservator Catherine Nicholson.<\/p>\n<p>A short documentary video\u00a0produced by the National Archives chronicles the document\u2019s conservation treatment during which ultra-violet photography revealed previously illegible writing in the text of the document that had been obliterated by water damage at some unknown time in the past.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Magna Carta Conservation Treatment\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CqQVY1Zn0oM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full July 20, 2011 press release about the\u00a0 conservation treatment, re-encasement and public display of Magna Carta conducted by National Archives senior conservators Terry Boone and Morgan Zinsmeister. The project manager is supervisory conservator Catherine Nicholson. A short documentary video\u00a0produced by the National Archives chronicles the document\u2019s conservation treatment during which ultra-violet photography &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2011\/07\/23\/national-archives-conservators-reveal-previously-illegible-text-in-magna-carta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Archives Conservators Reveal Previously Illegible Text in Magna Carta&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-research-materials-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}