When most people hear the name Archimedes, they picture a gaunt figure with a long beard screaming "Eureka!" and running around the streets naked, dripping with bathwater. Whether such a scene ever ...

Twelve years ago, Walters Art Museum curator Will Noel opened a parcel and discovered what he calls “Archimedes’ brain in a box.” Thus began a search for buried treasure — in this case, the lost ...

A particle accelerator is being used to reveal the long-lost writings of the Greek mathematician Archimedes, work hidden for centuries after a Christian monk wrote over it in the Middle Ages. Highly ...

Experts at the Walters Art Museum have taken the Archimedes Palimpsest to Stanford University in California in an effort to decipher some of the prized document’s detail with a particle accelerator. A ...

Occupation: Curator of manuscripts and rare books, The Walters Art Museum Why I love this piece: This piece is a perfect marriage of art and science. It is a photograph taken last year at The Walters ...

BALTIMORE (AP) -- After more than a decade of restoration and study, the public is getting a glimpse at the oldest surviving copy of works by an ancient Greek mathematical genius at the Walters Art ...

MENLO PARK — Exactly when isn’t clear, but some decades ago a Parisian art forger washed the Greek religious text off pages of a parchment book and painted it over with images of apostles Matthew, ...

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 ...