Preparing the Syriac Galen Palimpsest for an Xray Study, an Intern's Perspective

With X-ray imaging at SLAC’s synchrotron, scientists uncovered a 6th century translation of a book by the Greek-Roman doctor Galen. The words had been scraped off the parchment manuscript and written over with hymns in the 11th century. Before the discovery, the Libraries' Preservation Department prepares the item for examination.