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4,000 year wind technology: The real ancient Iranian engineering behind Dune’s windtraps

Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed ...
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This Ancient Tech Might Prove Civilizations Were Far More Advanced

Throughout history, numerous ancient technologies have left researchers and historians pondering the true capabilities of early civilizations. Were they more advanced than we give them credit for? By ...
Princeton University

In this engineering and humanities ‘mashup’ course, students learn new ways of thinking from builders of the ancient world. Even Galileo weighs in.

The ingenuity of the construction techniques used by Greek builders 2,000 years ago continues to dazzle the world. What did these ancient engineers get right? And how does looking to the past help ...
Africa Times

Early Human Ingenuity: World’s Oldest Wooden Structure Discovered in Zambia Sheds Light on Ancient Technology

In a groundbreaking archaeological find, wooden logs dating back 476,000 years have been discovered at Kalambo Falls in Zambia. This discovery, made beneath ...
Greek Reporter

Unfinished Pompeii Project Reveals Ancient Roman Building Technology

Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable ...
JSTOR Daily

Review: New Perspectives on Ancient Technology and Engineering in Greece and Rome: John Peter Oleson, "The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World"

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Technology and Culture is the quarterly interdisciplinary journal of the Society for the History of Technology. The international ...