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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...