Reviel Netz, a scholar who has done work on the Archimedes Palimpsest, states in The Archimedes Codex that too few scholars read Arabic. He makes a suggestion that there may be more unpublished works of Archimedes and the ancient Greeks that are only in some hidden Arabic library, although the Arabic version may be far removed from the original Greek.

Reviel Netz, a scholar who has done work on the Archimedes Palimpsest, states in The Archimedes Codex that too few scholars read [ancient] Arabic.

He makes a suggestion that there may be more unpublished works of Archimedes and other Hellenistic Greeks that are to be found in some hidden Arabic library of the late first/early second millennia.

Netz argues, however, that the Arabic version would likely be far more removed from the original Greek, because copyists in the Arab world of that time were more competent/more willing make corrections/changes to the text for clarity in-situ, as opposed to the European copyists/monks who would copy verbatim, carrying mistakes and difficult readings forward down the manuscript tree.