This is your opportunity to get a glimpse into the past! Uwe Bergmann uses modern technology to reveal the secrets of the past. His research activities focus on the development and application of novel x-ray spectroscopic techniques. Recently, he used a special imaging technique, x-ray fluorescence imaging, to reveal hidden writings in the 10th century Archimedes Palimpsest. He also led an x-ray scanning experiment on Archaeopteryx, a 150-million-year old "dinobird" fossil, which revealed previously unseen elements of the animal's original chemistry.