Photo: Hasbro Easy-Bake Ultimate Oven. Credit: Hasbro.

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Photo: A sample of the manuscript. Credit: Walters Art Museum.

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is preparing an exhibit titled “Lost & Found: The Secrets of Archimedes,” which will be on display from Oct. 16 to Jan. 1.

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a medieval manuscript that was copied in the 10th century and reused as a prayer book in the 13th century by scraping the pages and and rotating them 90 degrees. In 1998, the manuscript was sold at Christie’s for $2 million and since then a team of scientists has been working to recover Archimedes’ original writings.

It was in horrible condition, having suffered a thousand years of weather, travel and abuse,” said Archimedes Project Director and Walters Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books Will Noel. “Detailed detective work and the serendipitous discovery of important documents and photographs allowed us to reconstruct what happened to the Palimpsest in the 20th century, when it was subject to appalling treatment and overpainted with forgeries. A team of devoted scholars using the latest imaging technology was able to reveal and decipher the original text.”

Walters Art Museum press release | Archimedes Palimpsest website

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