[Richard from IL]

I attended this session yesterday (my brother was one of the presenters). It was very exciting. A book on the discoveries will be published in a couple of months.

[maryz]

Later the writing was washed out using a solvent such as orange juice and overwritten with new text

Orange juice??? I had a vague impression palimsests were scraped and then reused.

[proxy_user]

When will a transcription of the Greek text be available?

[BigBobber]

"In those days, parchment writing materials were so valuable that they were commonly reused when the book was considered out of date ..."

According to Sheryl Crow, those days are back. Who knew?

[Socratic]

Thanks for this great post and congratulations to your brother to be involved in something so historically important.

[Verginius Rufus]

There is a lot of information available at the website

www.archimedespalimpsest.org

but they don't seem to have any up-to-date news concerning the announcements of the last couple of days.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Archimedes’ hidden writings revealed with particle accelerator (Stanford)
ap on San Diego Union - Tribune | 8/4/06 | Terence Chea - ap
Posted on 08/04/2006 10:39:30 PM EDT by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1678104/posts

related:

Imaging Technology Restores 700-Year-Old Sacred Hindu Text
[ Sarvamoola granthas ]
RIT University News Web | Tuesday, September 19, 2006 | Susan Gawlowicz
Posted on 09/19/2006 12:13:54 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1704296/posts