unexplained-events: Galen’s Hidden TextThis 1400 year old book of archaic hymns and religious
unexplained-events: Galen’s Hidden TextThis 1400 year old book of archaic hymns and religious text is being examined by scientist at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California. It’s being examined not because it’s a priceless and historic artifact, but because the original text contained in the book belonged to Galen of Pergamon, a Greek physician and philosopher born under the Roman Empire during the 2nd century. He was known as one of the greatest medical minds of antiquity. The parchment contained within this 1400 year old book was originally inscribed with the teachings of Galen, translated by an unknown hand centuries after the physician’s death, before being hidden by psalms for an entire millennium. Scientist believe that Galen’s text was covered up for economic reasons (parchment used to be expensive) and not for malicious reasons.For nearly a decade, scientists and scholars have been using multi-spectral imaging to try to reveal the scrubbed traces of the ancient underlying text, and thanks to a team at SLAC’s Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, we might finally succeed in deciphering the hidden words. What they have found so far has been “incredibly mind-blowing” and they still have over 200 pages left to decode.SOURCE -- source link