Ancient Greek inventions included remarkable automata and the Antikythera Mechanism, but many of their engineers' innovations ...

From ancient stone tools to early life-changing, read about the innovations that shaped human history and progress.

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 ...

Many assume that advanced technology is a product of recent centuries, but history tells a different story. Ancient civilisations often created tools, structures, and systems so advanced they continue ...

India s contributions to science, mathematics, medicine, and philosophy date back thousands of years. Long before the rise of modern technologies, ancient Indian thinkers, scientists, and scholars had ...

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 ...

Ancient Indian inventions such as Ayurveda and Yoga have laid the foundation for practices that the world continues to embrace today.

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 Pythagorean Cup, an invention from ancient Greece, shows that Greek heads weren't in the intellectual clouds all the time.

Earliest records show a spoon shaped compass made of lodestone or magnetite ore, referred to as a "South-pointer" dating back to sometime during the Han Dynasty (2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE).