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...

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...

American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. bounced 564 property tax checks in Maryland but blamed other financial institutions for the problem, the state's commissioner of financial regulation said Thursday.The bankrupt mortgage lender responded Thursday to inquiries made last week by state regulators, saying the problems stemmed...

Two U.S. citizens accused of plotting to attack civilian and government targets shot "casing videos" of Washington landmarks that were found on a terrorism suspect's computer in Britain and met with suspects in a Canadian terrorism case, an FBI agent testified Monday.Agent Mark Richards testified...