Eureka!

[evilteve]

Probably not of interest to everyone, but fascinating to me, I just watched a live webcast on the laser inferometry xray scan of a folio of the archimedes palimpsest, containing the earliest known copies of some of archimedes work, including "The mechanics of floating bodies" and "stomachion

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[nycto]

Despite not understanding most of your first sentence, I did find that interesting.

That's amazing that they can still access the text despite all the damage done to the paper.