ancient technology

Diolkos

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One of the questions that has always intrigued historians is how ancient peoples traveled and transported heavy loads. Excavations by Greek archaeologists between 1956 and 1962 revealed that ancient engineers, two thousand years before the invention of the steam locomotive, devised a simple concept of a railway. This was the diolkos, an ancient track that … Read more

American Stone Age

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For a long time, it was believed that the American continent was uninhabited until about 11,500 years ago when Asian and Siberian tribes, following mammoths in hunting, crossed the Bering Strait, which became passable during the Ice Age. According to genetic analysis, present-day Native American tribes are indeed direct descendants of Asian tribes. However, genetic … Read more