Most of what we know about Archimedes today comes from his writings and those of his contemporaries. Born in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C., Archimedes traveled to Egypt ...
According to NOVA, Archimedes was born in Syracuse—on the Mediterranean island of Sicily, not upstate New York—around 287 BCE. He was the son of astronomer Phidias and a close ally of Syracuse ...