History With Kayleigh Official on MSN

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 ...
Morning Overview on MSNOpinion

Ancient space rocks could hold the blueprint for asteroid mining

The most promising clues are not in speculative business plans but in ancient space rocks themselves, whose chemistry and ...
Ancient Origins

Temple of Venus Defied Time Through Staggering Roman Engineering

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...
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 ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Long-overlooked marvel of ancient Indigenous engineering gets validation in Ohio

On Native American Heritage Day, we examine a long-overlooked marvel of ancient engineering that had been tucked away beneath a golf course in Ohio. It is a place some archaeologists say is on par ...
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 ...