History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of knowledge with them - engineering secrets, chemical formulas, mechanical wonders ...

It's easy to think of the evolution of technology as a linear process, starting from the most primitive simple machines and ...

Aristotle, Plato, Socrates... Ancient Greece's charismatic philosophers define the civilization's legacy in popular memory. Often forgotten are the technological inventions that set Greece apart from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Aristotle, Plato, Socrates... Ancient Greece's charismatic philosophers define the civilization's legacy in popular memory. Often forgotten are the technological inventions that set Greece apart from ...