The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...
The Ancient Greeks may have invented an intricate pulley system of ropes and levers to lift vast blocks weighing up to 900 lbs when building their enormous structures. In the sixth century BC, the ...
The Egyptian pyramids remain one of the most fascinating structures in the world thanks in part to its size, age, and the mystery that has shrowded them. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT These ...
Archaeologists believe that they have finally solved the mystery of how the Ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramid of Giza. The pyramid is the oldest and only survivor of the Seven Wonders of the ...
THE ANCIENT Greeks were using the world’s first “cranes” 150 years earlier than we thought. Research shows some of the civilisation’s earliest temples were built using a complex system of ropes, ...
Ancient Welshmen are buried at Stonehenge, new analysis of cremated remains discovered at the prehistoric monument has revealed. It is now believed the Welshmen helped to build Stonehenge more than ...
Maya in the city of Tikal used a sophisticated water filtering system. (Getty) Ancient Maya in the city of Tikal built an advanced water filter system that could remove microbes and heavy metals, ...
A history enthusiast claims the island of Ruad off Syria holds key evidence that an ancient civilisation lived there A YouTube historian has claimed to have found “highly compelling” evidence for the ...
Today, we seem to struggle to imagine how ancient people could build and orient such structures. This has led to many assumptions. Some suggest prehistoric people must have had some knowledge of ...