The book cost $2 million at auction, but large sections are unreadable. Some of its 348 pages are torn or missing and others are covered with sprawling purple patches of mildew. Sooty edges and water ...

Archimedes didn’t really invent a death ray. But more than 2,200 years after his death, the ancient Greek’s inventions are still driving technological innovations — so much so that experts from around ...

Connect the dots....Eureka! It's Archimedes sitting in the bath. Allen, Pamela. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1980. Introduces buoyancy by telling a story about Archimedes taking a bath with ...

MENLO PARK — Exactly when isn’t clear, but some decades ago a Parisian art forger washed the Greek religious text off pages of a parchment book and painted it over with images of apostles Matthew, ...

CHICAGO - The first mathematical use of the concept of actual infinity has been pushed back some 2,000 years via a new analysis of a tattered page of parchment on which a medieval monk in ...