The trace harness arrived in Europe in the sixth century and made its way across Europe by the eighth century. 2. The Wheelbarrow: China, First Century BCE. Wheelbarrows did ... grid of latitude and ...

These small but ornate bottles were placed with the dead to catch the tears of their loved ones. The discovery, in the first century BCE, that glass could be blown with a pipe seems to have been made ...

Around 1500 BCE, finer vessels were being made in Egypt. The best glass manufacturers and exporters of this time were the Phoenicians who had a great supply of silica rich sands. Glass blowing ...

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, in southern Iraq, around 3350–3000 BCE. This ...

From unique foods to mind-boggling tools and skills, civilizations in Meso- and South America wowed newcomers with everything from chocolate to brain surgery, pioneering or perfecting inventions ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other ...

In the book of Isaiah, from which Jesus quotes, the original Isaiah of Jerusalem lived in the eighth century BCE in Jerusalem ... Interpretative choices are made even in picking up today's ...

This innovation combined fish paste (specifically made from Alaska pollock) with starches, sugars, egg whites, and flavorings to mimic a variety of oceanic delights. Shaped into sticks ...

Credit: Parco Archeologico e Paesaggistico della Valle dei Templi In the heart of the ancient city of Akragas, today known as Agrigento, an extraordinary archaeological discovery has been made, ...

In the book of Isaiah, from which Jesus quotes, the original Isaiah of Jerusalem lived in the eighth century BCE in Jerusalem ... Interpretative choices are made even in picking up today's ...