c. 287–212 BCE
Mathematician and engineer of antiquity's greatest ingenuity.
Archimedes (c. 287–212 BCE) endures among the great of Europe & Mediterranean. Mathematician and engineer of antiquity's greatest ingenuity.
Across the classical age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost.
Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.
Submitted with honor.
Submitted by the Honored Ancestors Editorial Committee.
