Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An haifi Archimedes c. 287 BC a cikin tashar jiragen ruwa na Syracuse, Sicily, a wancan lokacin mulkin mallaka a Magna Graecia. Ranar haihuwar ta dogara ne akan bayanin da masanin tarihin Girka na Byzantine John Tzetzes ya yi cewa Archimedes ya rayu har shekaru 75. A cikin Sand Reckoner, Archimedes ya ba da sunan mahaifinsa a matsayin Phidias, masanin taurari wanda ba a san komai game da shi ba. Plutarch ya rubuta a cikin Parallel Lives cewa Archimedes yana da dangantaka da Sarki Hiero II, mai mulkin Syracuse. Abokinsa Heracleides ya rubuta tarihin rayuwar Archimedes amma wannan aikin ya ɓace, yana barin cikakkun bayanai game da rayuwarsa. Alal misali, ba a san ko ya yi aure ba ko kuma yana da yara. A lokacin ƙuruciyarsa, mai yiwuwa Archimedes ya yi karatu a Alexandria, Misira, inda Conon na Samos da Eratosthenes na Cyrene suka kasance zamani. Ya ambaci Conon na Samos a matsayin abokinsa, yayin da biyu daga cikin ayyukansa (Hanyar Mechanical Theorems da Cattle Problem) suna da gabatarwar da aka yi wa Eratosthenes.  Tambaya: A wane gari aka haifi Archimedes?
Syracuse, Sicily Ƙasar Italiya