Ancient Technology
Archaeological discoveries and several ancient texts reveal our ancestors were much more advanced than previously thought. Many of our modern inventions are only re-inventions based on knowledge of ancient people.
During the growth of the ancient civilizations, ancient technology was the result from advances in engineering in ancient times. What kind of technology was present in the ancient world? In this section we take a closer look at the stunning technology of the ancient world.
Ancient Technology Archive
Ancient Technology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have recently re-examined a small copper-alloy object that was excavated nearly a century ago from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt. Their
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Sumerians were an advanced ancient civilization fully aware of the dangers climate can pose. They naturally knew there was no survival without water,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings are often depicted as crude barbarians running around yelling and waving with swords, but there are many reasons we should reconsider whether
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is much to be learned from many ancient civilizations. Ancient Maya reservoirs, which used aquatic plants to filter and clean the water,
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Ancient Technology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered that ancient Roman glass, known as "wow glass," has formed a strange type of crystal that refracts light in surprising
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Ancient Technology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While 21st-century water companies struggle to maintain clean, fresh supplies, a new study reveals that, some 2,000 years ago, Roman water engineers were
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Zhang Heng (A.D. 78 - 139) was one of the world's first scientists to propose that the universe is infinite in space and
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Engineers from Caltech have discovered that Leonardo da Vinci's understanding of gravity—though not wholly accurate—was centuries ahead of his time. In an article
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Ancient Technology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - "It has been documented since the Renaissance that an air bubble rising in water will deviate from its straight, steady path to
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Ancient Technology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have identified the ingredients in chemistry formulas from a 2,300-year-old Chinese text, revealing ancient metallurgy was more complex than expected. The Kaogong
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers at UCL have solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The modern world is becoming more and more familiar with the use of robots that are put to work in several fields. Industrial
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - More than 12,000 years ago, people developed a sophisticated technique for making a play dough-like material from mammoth ivory. This prehistoric technique enabled
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered the oldest known human-made nanomaterials in the “unique black coatings” of ancient pottery shards — dated to 600 BC —
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new study led by UCL researchers shows that chromium steel was first made in Persia, nearly a millennium earlier than experts previously
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Knowledge of acoustics was not uncommon among ancient people. Many ancient cultures used and modified architecture for acoustic purposes. The musical sound of
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Ancient Technology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Egyptian blue is the world’s oldest artificial pigment. It has extraordinary properties that allow scientists to reconstruct the past and shape the
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many ancient civilizations constructed stunning buildings that still stand today. Modern scientists have long wondered how our ancestors were able to lift giant
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Is it possible that a highly advanced unknown civilization populated this planet thousands of years ago? Did this prehistoric civilization possess scientific knowledge and
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Ancient Technology
AncientPages.com - Thousands of years, trepanation—the act of scraping, cutting, or drilling an opening into the cranium—was practiced around the world, primarily to treat head trauma, but possibly to
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Even with a highly skilled neurosurgeon, the most effective anesthesia, and all the other advances of modern medicine, most of us would cringe
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Ancient Technology
AncientPages.com - The question of how to place a 13-ton hat on a giant statue is currently being investigated by a team of researchers. Their study focuses on
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Ancient Technology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Dutch archaeologists have studied two fascinating Ice Age finds found at the bottom of the North Sea. One of them is a rare
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There is plenty of evidence that our ancestors much more advanced than we previously thought. The use of electricity is supposed to be a
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Ancient Technology
AncientPages.com - Scientists have found evidence people in Sahara were familiar with glass technology centuries before the arrival of Europeans. During excavations at Igbo Olokun, located on the northern
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Ancient Technology
AncientPages.com - An ingenious irrigation system that allowed ancient Chinese farmers to raise livestock and cultivate crops in one of the world’s driest desert regions of China, has been
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Ancient Technology
AncientPages.com - A huge ancient hydraulic system discovered in China may be the world’s oldest and predate Mesopotamian water systems. Ancient skilled Mesopotamian engineers constructed sophisticated water systems around
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AncientPages.com - Analysis of a 2,000-year-old papyri fragments reveals ancient Egyptians were familiar with advanced ink technology. Using X-ray microscopy have demonstrated that black ink used by Egyptian scribes
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Ancient Mysteries
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are many intriguing time travel stories. One of the most puzzling accounts deals with a very brilliant but eccentric British inventor who some
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