Brenden Sener admits there are challenges to his project but argues that the ancient descriptions could still be accurate.

Since the birth of humanity people have fought each other. Over time the ancient weapons have been replaced by more ...

had long been of interest to the ancient Greeks, who strove for precise mathematical proportions in their architecture, music, and other art forms. In Archimedes' day, close approximations of pi ...

Ancient Greek thinkers made big discoveries ... Dom: He did all of this over 2000 years ago. Dick: Archimedes was a Greek guy with a great beard. Born a ridiculously long time ago around the ...

Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic ...

A scholar who discovered that, contrary to belief, the ancient Greeks, through the work of Archimedes, had actually toyed with infinitely large sets, Netz knows a thing or two about mathematical ...

Ancient Greek stories are still told today ... Dom: He did all of this over 2000 years ago. Dick: Archimedes was a Greek guy with a great beard. Born a ridiculously long time ago around the ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Technically it’s ancient technology. But now the two-millennia-old principle of the Greek mathematician Archimedes has ...

Named for its inventor, the Greek mathematician Archimedes (237-212 BCE), the Archimedes screw is a device for raising water. Essentially, it is a large screw, open at both ends and encased lengthwise ...

Ancient Greece gave us many things, from mythology to democracy by way of the Olympics, but if I recall my (very) old primary-school project correctly, one thing Archimedes and pals never got ...