ancient technology
DNA Sheds Light on the Only Known Battle Between Asian and African Elephant-Riding Armies
It's a very 21st Century take on the 2nd Century BCE.
111 Years Ago, an Archaeologist Realized He Had Discovered the World's Oldest Known Computer
'Computer' in one of the older senses of the word. The Antikythera Mechanism is thought to be an astronomical mechanism, capable of predicting both solar eclipses and the Olympiad, which makes it sort of like NBC, but with solar eclipses and no Bob...
A Brief History of Keeping Cool: Air Conditioning Through the Ages
Perhaps you too have lined up a bunch of glasses of ice water in front of a box fan in front of your face in a desperate attempt to cool your overheating brains before full-on cranial core meltdown. It didn't work all that well, probably. Life without...
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Chimp Nut-Smashing Techniques Explain Our Proto-Culture
Conventional wisdom makes a big deal about the cultural gap that sets humans apart from apes – that giant chasm between nut-smashing and Beethoven.
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