... tons and displaced 2000 tons of water, it would float. Barely. The Syracusia sailed only once to the shore of Alexandria in 240 B.C. where it was given to Ptolemy III Euergetes of Egypt and was renamed The Alexandria. Among some of Archimedes' other achievements, is the Archimedes Screw pump. The Archimedes Screw was originally developed to remove bilge water from the inside of the hull of the Syracusia. The mechanics of the pump were a screw shaped blade inside a cylinder that ... , in 1998 a Byzantine palimpsest was sold at auction for 2 million dollars. The palimpsest appeared in a li...

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