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

The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern applications.

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

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

The bow and arrow only arrived in western North America 1,400 years ago, according to a recent dating of over a hundred ancient weapons. This is surprising given this technology was widespread in the ...

In A Nutshell Researchers dated 136 preserved organic weapons from western North America and found the bow and arrow appeared in both northern and southern regions around 1,400 years ago. In the south ...

The Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile, discovered in the 1970s, revolutionized the thinking about when humans entered the Americas, with scientists calculating decades ago that this former ...