History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

Ancient Greek polybolos machine gun is one of the most fascinating warfare inventions in antiquity, shooting and reloading multiple bolts.

The Parthian Battery or Baghdad Battery is one of the most fascinating inventions of the ancient world preceding the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The frame harp of the fourth and fifth centuries had an arched sound box and a post for support on the open ends and was played resting on the left knee while the player was seated. It was designed ...

The inventions of the hemispherium and the hemicyclium are attributed to Berosus (356-323 BCE), a Chaldean priest and astronomer who brought these types of sundials to Greece. Both dials use the shape ...

Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse calculated the infinite mathematical concept pi in the 200s BCE, which we ...