History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

At head of title: Smithsonian. Summarizes one thousand notable inventions and discoveries of ancient and modern times, from 3,000,000 B.C. to the beginning of the twenty-first century A.D.

A rare 1,700-year-old discovery by archaeologists in Turkey highlights the use of advanced engineering of the Roman-era.

All inventions cause the world to react in one way or another. In many cases, discoveries push the boundaries of human output ...