The Palimpsest, a writing of Archimedes once thought lost to history, has been revealed through the advanced use of a ...

The pages of a medieval prayer text also contain words of ancient Greek engineer Archimedes. It takes high-tech imaging to read between the lines. Book with a buried treasure - Los Angeles Times ...

Baltimore It’s the most unassuming of treasures: a plain, careworn prayer book that dates to the Byzantine empire’s waning days and has since survived fire, forgery, and fungi (just barely, in ...

Archimedes' Secret BBC Two 9.00pm Thursday 14 March 2002. This is the story of a book that could have changed the history of the World. To the untrained eye, it is nothing more than a small and ...

UMass-Dartmouth professor Alan Hirshfeld pens a mathematical pot-boiler about the life and science of Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor and astronomer Archimedes.

Then, 700 years ago, a monk needed parchment for a new prayer book. He pulled the copy of Archimedes’ book off the shelf, cut the pages in half, rotated them 90 degrees, and scraped the surface ...

UMass-Dartmouth professor Alan Hirshfeld pens a mathematical pot-boiler about the life and science of Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor and astronomer Archimedes.