Scientists finish 200-year decryption of ancient Greek-Egyptian treatise - study
The manuscript is believed to be a lost treatise by Ptolemy on his Meteoroscope. It was hidden within a copy of Etymologiae. Deciphering it has taken over 200 years.
Depictions of Euclid and Ptolemy with a cosmological diagram between them. Engraving. (Illustrative).(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)ByAARON REICH
