Relatively few mathematical writings have survived from the time the rulers of Egypt built the pyramids. This is largely because writing at that time was done on laminated sheets of the papyrus plant, and such materials readily decompose under adverse...

c. 1680-c. 1620 B.C. Egyptian scribe credited with writing down the material on the Rhind Papyrus, named for Alexander Henry Rhind, the Scottish Egyptologist who discovered it in 1858. A secretary rather than author, as he himself stated in the...

Ahmes (c. 1680 BC-c. 1620 BC) (more accurately Ahmose) was an Egyptian scribe who lived during the Second Intermediate Period. A surviving work of Ahmes is part of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus now located in the British Museum (Newman, 1956). Ahmes...

REEBOK BOSTON INDOOR GAMES Said Ahmed went out for a run in his old neighborhood last night. The blue turf of the Reggie Lewis Center track was as familiar as an old shoe: Ahmed ruled this oval in high school, as he ruled...

RALEIGH, NC - A loud crack of thunder blasted just seconds before Boston English senior Said Ahmed toed the line for the final race of his stellar prep career. It was a bad omen. Running in the seeded section of the 800-meter race...

American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday and two other mortgage lenders said they were not accepting new applications, signs that the worst housing crunch in decades could be widening.American Home Mortgage, based in Melville, N.Y., and once the nation's 10th...

NAME — Salim Ahmed Hamdan.AGE — U.S. military records show Hamdan is about 37.NATIONALITY — Yemeni.HOW HE GOT TO GUANTANAMO — Afghan troops captured Hamdan in southern Afghanistan on Nov. 24, 2001, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information...