NASA science reveals texts of Trojan Wars, early gospels
This is the kind of thing we all hope for - finding a gem in a load of garbage. Multispectral imaging, as enhanced by computers, allows us to bring out the details of obscured writings to a point that we are able to translate them. This will be big - very big. As this article describes, they've only translated 1% of this find before now, but the new technology will speed up the process.

My favorite part:

Meanwhile, the Oxford team is looking at another promising application of the technology. Scholars have long known that the elaborately painted cartonnage used to encase mummies was a kind of papier-mache made from papyrus. A lot of the papyrus has writing on it, but there didn't seem to be a way of reading it without destroying the decorative cartonnage.

In one recent trial, the imaging process was able to read writing beneath the painted surface of a cartonnage fragment. Scholars were thrilled, even though it turned out to be just another government report.