Infinite secrets
(DVD) 

Originally produced in 2002; broadcast in 2003 as a segment of Nova.

Special features: DVD-ROM access to website, a page from the Palimpsest, teaching materials (PDF), library resourse kit (PDF); other products of interest.

Edited by Stephanie Munroe ... [et al.] ; narrated by Jeremiah Kissel ; camera, Mike Garner ... [et al.] ; series producer for BBC, Matthew Barrett.

Narrated by Jeremiah Kissel.

In 1991 an extraordinary item was put up for auction. To the untrained eye, it was nothing more than a small Byzantine prayer book, yet it sold for over $2 million. Twenty-two centuries after Archimedes wrote his most revealing mathematical work, "Infinite Secrets" reports the story of the manuscript's amazing discovery and how modern technology is being used to read its startling contents. A scribe in the 13th century had incompletely erased a 10th-century copy of Archimedes' works and had then written over it -- a common practice that allowed reuse of valuable parchment and produced a palimpsest, or parchment or tablet used one or more times after a layer has been erased.

Not rated.

DVD, NTSC; region 1; full screen presentation; Dolby Digital.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired; optional audio description for people with visual disabilities.