This famous 17th-century Roman monument bears witness to the prestige of the popes, the power of Roman emperors, and the mysterious piety of the pharaohs.
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The Greek inventor Archimedes supposedly used mirrors to set fire to invading ships.To test the possibility, a middle-school student designed an experiment
Legends about the ingenuity of the Greek inventor and mathematician Archimedes were so powerful that for centuries, many scholars have believed he was able to use mirrors to set Roman ships alight more than 2,000 years ago.