Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes is believed to have built a death ray that was used to burn enemy ships. A teenager ...

Sener has since earned multiple medals for his attempt to bring the ancient device to life. In his view, he as shown that ...

Pi, represented by the symbol π, is one of the most famous and important constants in mathematics. It is defined as the ratio ...

this one starts in an Ancient Greek colony – although today we’d consider it part of Italy. Archimedes of Syracuse was born ...

One of history’s dark jokes is that the Roman Empire, for all its vaunted accomplishments, only made a single great ...

There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...

Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

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