Archaeologists have completed the first comprehensive technological mapping of an intricate underground tunnel system beneath the ancient Etruscan city of Veii, revealing a sophisticated network of ...

Discover the top 9 most influential ancient inventors. Learn about their groundbreaking innovations in science & engineering ...

The Virtual Museum of Ancient Inventions is a project that was begun by students in the course Ancient Inventions, first taught by Marjorie Senechal, which was offered at Smith from 1997 through 2004.

History is littered with brilliant ideas that arrived too early for their own good. Some were buried by economic constraints, ...

Many theories have tried to explain when and where the wheel and axle were first invented. A new study examines a relatively recent theory that miners in the Carpathian Mountains created the first ...

From the deserts of Iran came innovations millennia ahead of their time, wind catchers, ice houses, and the world’s first ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a ...

Fragments of the Hydraulis—the ancient Greek water organ—were unearthed in the Dion, at the foot of Mount Olympus in 1992.

Since the earliest civilizations, humans have needed walls to protect them. From rudimentary walls around early towns and cities to vast fortresses and castles, culminating in one of the greatest ...