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.
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 stones was important when ceremonies and rituals were performed. Stonehenge, the famous
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 technology of the future. To ancient Egyptians, blue was a very important
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 stones and blocks without access to cranes. According to a new theory,
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Tipón waterworks stand out because their hydraulic engineering is combined with thoughtful and extremely skilled environmental design. In all of Tawantinsuyu, or the “Land of the Four Quarters” as the Inca called their empire,
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 technical skills that we have struggled to acquire for centuries? If true,
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 quell headaches, seizures and mental illnesses, or even to expel perceived demons.
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 at the thought of undergoing cranial surgery today. After all, who needs
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 the statues of Easter Island and the red hats that adorn some
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 artifact in form of decorated bison bone, and the other is a
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 modern invention, but various ancient sources reveal ancient civilizations were familiar with
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 periphery of Ile-Ife in southwestern Nigeria, archaeologists uncovered more than 12,000 glass
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 located by scientists using satellites imaging and drone reconnaissance. This lost for
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 4,900 years ago and these have long been considered to the world’s
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 also contained copper – an element previously not identified in ancient ink.
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 thinks designed a real time machine based on secret ancient Egyptian knowledge
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The history of powerful, gigantic shafts of polished granite, known as obelisks, is shrouded in mystery. This monolithic, four-sided stone monument, set upright and ending in a pointed top, forms a small pyramid known as
