Discover the ingenuity of the ancient Romans in this fascinating video! From aqueducts to concrete, the Romans created many inventions that laid the foundation for modern civilization. Join us as we ...

Ancient Greeks were known to be some of the best inventors. To this end, many of their inventions, while being thousands of ...

Ancient Roman board game stumped experts for decades – until AI played A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement in the Netherlands presented a puzzle for ...

Since the birth of humanity people have fought each other. Over time the ancient weapons have been replaced by more ...

Ancient Roman forces may have used the polybolos to quell a rebellion at Pompeii in 89 B.C.E. The unique weapon was likely ...

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This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. While the map is famous for its early depiction of the Americas, a new wave of academic ...

Researchers studying a perfectly preserved construction site in Pompeii have confirmed that ancient Romans used a 'hot-mixing' technique to make concrete that could repair itself over time. By ...

Modern analytical tools are no less than a time machine. From their 21st-century labs, researchers can peer into the everyday ...

When in ancient Rome, do as the Romans do. For senior engineering students at Illinois University Carbondale, that means ...

Roman leader Julius Caesar is said to have kept a stock of it in the treasury. Ancient writer Pliny the Elder says Rome’s Emperor Nero owned the last stalk of it. And some have suggested rampant ...