The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest, a 10th century collection of the Greek mathematician’s treatises, changed hands many time—some pages didn’t make it.

Report long enough on palaeological and archaeological breakthroughs, and you start to notice some trends. Such as, the amazing frequency with which priceless relics are found collecting dust in a ...

The newly recovered 1000-year-old page from the Archimedes palimpsest. Credit: Blois, Musée des Beaux-Arts / IRHT-CNRS. For ...

A lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest containing work on the sphere and cylinder has been identified in France.

(CNN) — Often called the father of mathematics, Archimedes was one of the most famous inventors in ancient Greece, with some of his ideas and principles still in use today. (CNN) — Often called the ...

The Greek inventor Archimedes supposedly used mirrors to set fire to invading ships. To test the possibility, a middle-school student designed an experiment for his science fair. Using light bulbs and ...

A page of writing from legendary Greek scientist Archimedes, which was lost for several decades, has been rediscovered by a ...

It all started off as a joke, a French researcher told AFP. But what the team found was a piece of history -- a long-lost page from a legendary manuscript by ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It might be surprising to learn that then-12-year-old Brenden Sener of London, Ontario was enthralled by Ancient Greek concepts posited by the ...

Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse calculated the infinite mathematical concept pi in the 200s BCE, which we ...