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Wheels, gears, and batteries: 15 ancient ideas that engineered the modern age

Modern engineering may be filled with computers, automated factories, and advanced materials, but many ...

3,500-year-old settlement in Egypt shows how ordinary people lived through a power shift

In Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, a dig is shedding light on the routines of a community that lived about 3,500 years ago. The ...
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25 modern inventions that are really ancient: surprising his

Discover 25 modern inventions that are really ancient! From concrete to batteries, explore how ancient civilizations ...

Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elites

Meteorites provided a rare but ready source of iron for ancient Bronze Age cultures before smelting became common. A new study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, sheds light on how ...

Ancient forests took 100,000 years to recover from the last global warming period similar to today – Wyoming fossils reveal what happened

Today, human-caused carbon emissions and warming are unfolding vastly faster than during the PETM. The fossil record reminds us that forests can recover, but only if humanity avoids pushing them ...

Archaeologists Uncover 12,900-Year-Old Cave Where Ancient Hunter-Gatherers Once Lived

The discovery at Koskarlı Cave offers archaeologists new clues about hunter-gatherers who occupied the eastern Black Sea ...
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Denisovans may have dwarfed other ancient humans

Two leg bones found on the seabed near Taiwan have been identified as Denisovans, and their size suggests these hominins ...
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Ancient Colombians built huge water system without centralized rule, archaeologists say

Communities living in Colombia thousands of years ago achieved an engineering wonder of the world based on cooperation among family groups without top-down government, a new study shows.