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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The book cost $2 million at auction, but large sections are unreadable. Some of its 348 pages are torn or missing and others are covered with sprawling purple patches of mildew. Sooty edges and water ...

Circa 1300. Leaf from a manuscript excerpt from Joshua and Isaiah from the Haftorah. (Membrum disjectum.) Photo by Menachem Wecker. One of my favorite places when I was growing up in Boston was the ...

A super-X-ray beam in Menlo Park is literally shedding new light on the achievements of an ancient titan of math and engineering who lived almost 23 centuries ago. Just as today's scientists learn the ...