UV light helps to see the Greek statues in color

The idea that the ancient Greek statues were always snowy, wrongly - it turns out, the creators of them painted. Paint exposed for millennia to sun, wind and sand, just could not stand the test of time and chipped. However, scientists have found a way to see the statues as they were created. Thanks to technology raking light, widely used in the restoration of the paintings lies in the fact that the light is ultraviolet lamp is directed parallel to the object and become visible to the tiniest traces of fragments of paint, it was possible to find out what really looked like the statue, the site io9. In the ultraviolet rays of the archaeologists is visible reaction of the chemical composition of a coloring pigment to the light, it is also possible to determine where and how to touch a sculptor to his creation - the particles of organic origin fluoresce in the ultraviolet. Technologies such as infrared and rentgenospektroskopiya help archaeologists to find out from which the components were created one or another color, as well as its color. Do not go unheeded and the slightest change in the surface sculpture - part of formerly covered with paint, were less susceptible to environmental influences than the pure marble. Restorers do not plan to paint the unique statues again, but scientists have created models of sculptures by repeating to them the lost picture.