For over a century, one of the most mathematically significant documents in human history has had pages missing pages that went silent sometime between a Danish scholar's visit in 1906 and the manuscript's quiet journey through private hands across Europe. The Archimedes Palimpsest, a 10th-century Greek manuscript containing some of the only surviving copies of Archimedes' mathematical writings, has long been known to be incomplete. Three of its leaves vanished and were considered lost. Now, a CNRS researcher has identified one of those missing pages sitting inside the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, France and it contains fragments of Archimedes' mathematical work that could soon be read again for the first time in centuries, with the help of modern imaging technology.
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