Richard Whiddington, Long-Lost Archimedes Text Resurfaces in French Museum, ArtNet, 11 March 2026
A missing page from the Archimedes Palimpsest was found in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois.
A lost page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, among the oldest sources for the Greek mathematician in existence, has been discovered by researchers from France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois.
The page in question contains geometric diagrams and a passage from Archimedes’s treatise on the sphere and the cylinder, albeit hidden beneath a layer of later religious writings. The compilation of Archimedes’s writings was created in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) in the mid-10th century before being smuggled to a monastery in the Judean desert following the sacking of the city by crusaders in 1204.