A Christian monk handwrites prayers in Greek over the Archimedes text, turning the old mathematical text into a new prayer book. The book is now a palimpsest, a manuscript with a layer of text ...

“He responded to an email from Noel asking to display the palimpsest at the Walters Art Museum. That simple request kicked off a new chapter in the saga: the Archimedes Palimpsest Project.

Sometime after 1938, a forger, perhaps oblivious to the document's historic nature, tried to boost its value by painting Byzantine-style illuminations on a few of its ...

Finished in 1229 and likely made in Jerusalem, this manuscript became known as the Archimedes Palimpsest. It is the only ...

c. A.D. 1200 A monk reuses Archimedes' manuscript for a prayer book, creating the Palimpsest. This becomes the only copy of Archimedes' manuscript to survive to the present day. The Archimedes ...

Over the last two decades, R-CHIVE members have participated in numerous projects that successfully recovered writings formerly thought lost, including Archimedes Palimpsest, the oldest known copies ...

Jr., Roger L. Easton,, et al. "Spectral Imaging Methods Applied to the Syriac-Galen Palimpsest." Manuscript Studies 3. 1 (2018): 69-82. Print. Easton, Roger L., et al ...