Manuscript Facts

A 13th-century monk scraped away a unique manuscript containing Archimedes' mathematical works—including his Method of Mechanical Theorems—to reuse the parchment for a prayer book. This text contained concepts that anticipated integral calculus nearly 2,000 years before Newton and Leibniz.

There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.