Today, modern people have a lot to brag about, from smart gadgets to LLMs to self-driving cars to appliances that answer back. It's easy to think (like I once did) that humans are the smart, techy, ...

Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise. From computers that tracked celestial events to concrete that grows stronger with age, our ancestors created technologies ...

Earthquake monitoring, steam engines, surgery, and advanced materials: A journey through ancient inventions that were ahead of their time—and did not survive. In the year 138 AD, in the imperial court ...

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...

Back in the 1990s, most people wouldn’t have believed that soon, everyone from elementary school children to grandparents would be walking around with a hand-held device that serves as a computer, ...

We tend to dismiss the ancient world way too quickly. History gets compressed and when we look back, we often see a blur of stone tools, togas, sandals, and people squinting at the stars. But an ...

What do snow goggles, suspension bridges, and lacrosse have in common? They are all innovations that were created by Native Americans thousands of years ago that we still use today. Many Native ...

The human capacity for invention is unparalleled. We have developed technologies that have allowed us to survive and thrive far beyond the ecological niches that constrained our ancestors. While our ...

A new museum dedicated to the advanced technological inventions of ancient Greek scientist Archimedes, has just opened up in Ancient Olympia, Greece, according to a news announcement in the Greek ...

Ancient inventors were working without computers, electric tools, or modern laboratories, yet some of what they produced remains surprisingly difficult to explain. Researchers can often identify what ...

Ancient Inventions was a BBC historical documentary series released in 1998. It was presented by ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones and looked at great inventions of the ancient world. The series is ...