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The invention of the compass promoted maritime undertakings, and its use soon spread to the Arab world, and thence to Europe. China's four great ancient inventions made tremendous contributions to ...

The Virtual Museum of Ancient Inventions is a project begun by the students in the course Ancient Inventions, which was offered for the first time in the spring semester of 1997. More inventions will ...

While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's ...

Experts are shocked with this Ancient Greek invention that could be the end of solar panels as we know: It produces energy ...

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thomas Edison liked to say that he never failed. He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the ...

What did the ancient Greeks do for us? Find out about some ancient Greek inventions that are still used today! Introduction to Ancient Greece Find out what the ancient Greeks were like.

Like Archimedes notably stated, “Give me a lever long enough, and I will move the Earth,” an innovation, inspired by the principle, is ready to transform the renewable energy world. In this context, ...

What did the ancient Greeks do for us? Find out about some ancient Greek inventions that are still used today!

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a collection of 12,000-year-old perforated stones that might represent one of ...