A recent study has shed new light on the vastness of the ancient Roman road network, revealing that it stretched far longer ...

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

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and a new digital atlas shows that those roads stretched 50% longer than ...

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.

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 ...

In regards to the basin, it likely had a ceremonial use, based on finds of pottery and oil lamps discovered very nearby.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Technology and Culture is the quarterly interdisciplinary journal of the Society for the History of Technology. The international ...

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 ...