# The unidentified undertexts and uncertain passages can be read from the existing image stacks with newer…

> Still possible: The unidentified undertexts and uncertain passages can be read from the existing image stacks with newer processing such as…

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# The unidentified undertexts and uncertain passages can be read from the existing image stacks with newer…

The unidentified undertexts and uncertain passages can be read from the existing image stacks with newer processing such as machine-learning undertext separation.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionDeduced0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Reprocessing the released bands yields legible text on the unidentified leaves.

## What would rule it out

- Reprocessing all bands gives no legible text on those leaves.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[The release keeps every band as a registered image, so new processing can be applied without new imaging.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/evidence/EVD0CT7NA763H96/the-release-keeps-every-band-as-a-registered-image-so-new)

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## The questions it answers

[What in the palimpsest remains unread or unidentified?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/archimedes-palimpsest/questions/QST0CT7N4VA52VA/what-in-the-palimpsest-remains-unread-or-unidentified)

Part of [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)

Most likelyMuch of what remains is physically lost to scraping, mould and missing leaves and cannot be recovered by any…

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The unidentified undertexts and uncertain passages can be read from the existing image stacks with newer… [Answer ANS0CT7N9ZC58BE]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0CT7N9ZC58BE
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