Stanford recovering lost works of Archimedes

Oakland Tribune | August 4, 2006| | Copyright

MENLO PARK

EXACTLY WHEN isn't clear, but decades ago a Parisian art forger washed the Greek religious text off pages of a parchment book and painted over it with images of apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

It was a scam: Byzantine gospel books full of "illuminations" or religious paintings fetched top dollar in Europe from the 1930s to millions today.

Though as anyone who read Greek would have known, this was no gospel book, just worm-eaten prayers for a priest to consult at weddings, baptisms and the bedsides of the ailing.

But the prayer book held a deeper secret still.

Faintly ...

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