18/10/11 | C. Martin
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, US, is hosting an exhibition featuring the oldest surviving copy of works by Archimedes.
The exhibition - Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes - began on October 16 and will run until January 1, 2012.
The exhibition, which will recount the history of the Archimedes Palimpsest and detail the work by a team of researchers to read the erased texts of the Greek mathematical genius's 1,000-year-old manuscript, could increase the popularity of USA holidays.
Will Noel, Archimedes Project director and Walters curator of manuscripts and rare books, said: "This is a chance for the public to see the Archimedes Palimpsest in all its glory."
The Archimedes Palimpsest's anonymous owner, who bought it for $2 million (£1.3 million) at auction in 1998, will get the manuscript back after the exhibition.
Over 12 years, scientists and scholars employed many techniques to discover new scientific, philosophical and political texts from the ancient world.
Tourists going on luxury holidays to the US can take the opportunity to attend the exhibition dedicated to the brilliant mathematician, physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer who lived in the Greek city of Syracuse in the third century BC.
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