# Multispectral imaging and X-ray fluorescence together recovered the Archimedes undertext on every surviving…

> Most likely: Multispectral imaging and X-ray fluorescence together recovered the Archimedes undertext on every surviving leaf, including under the forged…

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# Multispectral imaging and X-ray fluorescence together recovered the Archimedes undertext on every surviving…

Multispectral imaging and X-ray fluorescence together recovered the Archimedes undertext on every surviving leaf, including under the forged paintings, to a standard that supports a full transcription.

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## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: three pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Every surviving Archimedes leaf has a registered image set and a mapped transcription in the release.
- Text under the four paintings is legible in the XRF iron maps.

## What would rule it out

- Substantial Archimedes passages on surviving leaves are absent from the transcriptions for want of a legible image.

## Evidence 3 for · none against

[By the end of 2010 scholars had recovered most of the text.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/evidence/EVD0CT7N62C1X7A/by-the-end-of-2010-scholars-had-recovered-most-of-the-text)

Supported

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[SSRL XRF produced a whole column of Archimedes text from under a forged painting.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/evidence/EVD0CT7N5TJ4YMZ/ssrl-xrf-produced-a-whole-column-of-archimedes-text-from)

Established

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[The release gives, for each folio, registered multiband images, pseudocolour renderings, XRF maps and…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/evidence/EVD0CT7N5JR0GAX/the-release-gives-for-each-folio-registered-multiband-images)

Established

FOR

## The questions it answers

[Did the imaging programme recover the erased Archimedes text wherever the parchment survives?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/questions/QST0CT7N43W11MX/did-the-imaging-programme-recover-the-erased-archimedes-text)

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