The Virtual Museum of Ancient Inventions is a project that was begun by students in the course Ancient Inventions, first taught by Marjorie Senechal, which was offered at Smith from 1997 through 2004.

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Back in the 1990s, most people wouldn’t have believed that soon, everyone from elementary school children to grandparents would be walking around with a hand-held device that serves as a computer, ...

Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise. From computers that tracked celestial events to concrete that grows stronger with age, our ancestors created technologies ...

India s contributions to science, mathematics, medicine, and philosophy date back thousands of years. Long before the rise of modern technologies, ancient Indian thinkers, scientists, and scholars had ...

Aristotle, Plato, Socrates... Ancient Greece's charismatic philosophers define the civilization's legacy in popular memory. Often forgotten are the technological inventions that set Greece apart from ...

The Virtual Museum of Ancient Inventions is a project begun by the students in the course Ancient Inventions, which was offered for the first time in the spring semester of 1997. More inventions will ...

Throughout history, there has been a treasure trove of innovative ideas that have stood the test of time; the wheel, paper and other ancient inventions, continue to influence our lives today. The ...

Ancient Inventions was a BBC historical documentary series released in 1998. It was presented by ex-Monty Python member Terry Jones and looked at great inventions of the ancient world. The series is ...

Aristotle, Plato, Socrates... Ancient Greece's charismatic philosophers define the civilization's legacy in popular memory. Often forgotten are the technological inventions that set Greece apart from ...