# Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxSummit
- Speaker: William Noel
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science, History, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/william_noel_revealing_the_lost_codex_of_archimedes)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine prayer book containing previously-unknown original writings from ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes and others.

## Lectures

1. [Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/william_noel_revealing_the_lost_codex_of_archimedes/e2568c8794a4), 15 min (TED's player)