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 ...

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 ...

The direction of RIT professor Roger Easton’s research changed in 1998 when a manuscript scholar working for Christie’s of New York came to the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science with 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 ...