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 ...

The Archimedes Screw, a mechanical device for raising water, is still used in Third World nations. But, it wasn’t until the scholars visiting the Walters began to decipher the palimpsest that ...

“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.

Dr Noel, curator of manuscripts at the US-based Walters Art Museum and a co-author of a forthcoming book on the Archimedes Palimpsest, said: "It's a rather brutal process, but it means you can reuse ...

Gysembergh remembered being struck by its potential when the Archimedes palimpsest was decoded. “As a student back then, I was fascinated that cameras could be used to discover new texts,” he ...

In 2005, seven years after the Archimedes palimpsest surfaced in New York, an even greater drama was unfolding in the basement of the National Museum of Archaeology in Athens. A team of Greek ...

In 1906, Danish scholar Johan Ludwig Heiberg received word that the Palimpsest was located in a library in Constantinople. After traveling there, Heiberg attempted to reconstruct Archimedes' work ...