Who were Archimedes, Ctesibius and Hero and what did they invent? And are their inventions still being used today, more than 2,000 years later? Born in Syracuse in 287 B.C. and educated in Alexandria, ...

CNN — (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. But one fabled device ...

If you think of Archimedes' "Eureka" moment, you're probably picturing a man in a bathtub, right? In reality, the story is far more complex than that. Armand D'Angour tells the story of Archimedes' ...

I bet we all know the exclamation of “eureka” attributed to Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor and astronomer, Archimedes. As the story goes, Archimedes was taking a bath. He noticed ...

Reviel Netz, an assistant professor of classics, might not have actually shouted "Eureka!" on a visit last year to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, but that's what he was thinking. A scholar of ...

LONDON — After a millennium in obscurity, the last unreadable pages of the works of Archimedes are being deciphered with the help of one of the brightest sources of X-rays on the planet. Thanks to the ...

Who were Archimedes, Ctesibius and Hero and what did they invent? And are their inventions still being used today, more than 2,000 years later? Born in Syracuse in 287 B.C. and educated in Alexandria, ...

(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 ...