Maybe for other inventors’ machines, few of which would be worthy of having Henry Jones Jr. search for it. But if anyone could have figured out time travel it was Archimedes. And if he did ...

When the Romans invaded Syracuse in 214 B.C., Archimedes invented "engines of war" to defend the city, including cranes to drop rocks, claws to lift ships from the water, and machines to fire ...

In fact, it is the specific Greek festivals the device tracks which might cast doubt on Dial of Destiny’s assertion that Archimedes designed the machine. Most famously, the mechanism was ...

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Ancient Greece mathematician Archimedes believed a death ray was plausible, so a middle school student from Canada put the concept to the test. Brenden Sener of Ontario won multiple medals for his ...