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The project focuses on recovering and studying ancient medical texts from palimpsests, which are manuscripts that have been overwritten. By using advanced imaging and machine learning techniques, it aims to make these texts readable again, shedding light on the history of medicine in late antique Alexandria.
Palimpsests have yielded spectacular new discoveries in the area of ancient texts: hitherto lost works are recovered and can be read again.
We recently identified a set of five palimpsests which will radically change the way in which we view the history of medicine in late antique Alexandria and the transmission of medical knowledge from Greek via Syriac into Arabic.
These palimpsests contain Commentaries by Gesius (ca. 450–530s) in Syriac translation on two works by the famous Greek physician G…
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
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