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

P5X will test your knowledge with classroom questions. Some of them are really tricky. So, let’s answer “Archimedes’s cattle ...

A typical page from the Archimedes Palimpsest. The text of the prayer book is seen from top to bottom, the original Archimedes manuscript is seen as fainter text below it running from left to right.

Archimedes Palimpsest. Public Domain Archimedes, one of ancient Greece ’s most famous and influential physicists and engineers, left a legacy of writings that had been thought to be lost to time. Much ...

Per Fagin Davis, in 2014, the Beinecke Library granted permission to the imaging team from The Lazarus Project to take multispectral images of ten pages from the Voynich manuscript with the intent ...

He died from his injuries on Monday. Noel, who grew up in England, was an authority on medieval manuscripts. But that only scratches the surface of his interests. He was a leading figure among ...

A series of hidden texts written by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are being revealed by US scientists. Until now, the pages have remained obscured by paintings and texts laid down on top ...

If you look at ancient manuscripts, you may notice that beneath the text, there is often a faint outline of other words that have been erased and written over.

The other pages of the manuscript contain text of another work of Ptolemy’s called On the Analemma, which was read in 1895 by the Danish scholar J.L. Heiberg.

Archimedes, who died in 212 B.C. at the hands of a Roman soldier in ancient Syracuse, is considered the father of calculus and antiquity’s greatest scientist.