In early 1998, Christie's New York was selling the "Archimedes Parchment," a religious prayer book by the godfather Johnathan Maryland. The bidders were convinced that the book was inextricably linked to Archimedes and that it might even be Archimedes' manuscript. It was auctioned off at $2.2 million by a mysterious American millionaire, who got Archimedes' manuscript. The American millionaire hired a team of professionals to conduct a comprehensive study of the codex. These archaeologists discovered that on the paper of the Archimedes, there was not only the prayer of the godfather, Johnathan Maryland but also an indistinct mark in Greek that was more than 2,000 years old.
In the end, the archaeologists discovered that the ancient Greeks used ink containing iron in their writing, so they succeeded in recovering two Archimedean manuscripts, The Method and The Stomachion, by locking the iron atoms in place.