Explore the world’s most fascinating ancient sites and uncover evidence of advanced machining technology used by civilizations long before modern tools existed. From Egypt to Peru, discover mysterious ...

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The Serapeum holds massive stone boxes that display signs of advanced machining, raising questions about the technology used by ancient Egyptians.

On Wednesday, Nov. 5, University of Massachusetts classics lecturer Joseph Wilson took the students in his course, Technology in the Ancient World, to the glassblowing laboratory of Sally Prasch. The ...

At a site called East Farm in England, recent excavations revealed reddened silt, flint handaxes distorted by heat, and fragments of a mineral—iron pyrite—that could have been used to make sparks on ...