The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we ...

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

New research uncovers the origin of the wheel, revealing how ancient copper miners transformed simple rollers into advanced ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world's oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...

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TIME editors have highlighted the most impactful new products and ideas in TIME’s Best Inventions issue. To compile this year's list, we solicited nominations from TIME’s editors and ...

William Dalrymple gives us a near-complete idea of how central India was to everything that happened in the ancient world ...

A SpaceX rocket launched Monday night from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the world’s first satellite model with wooden components, marking a potential shift in space engineering that ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient ...

TIME’s list of 200 groundbreaking inventions highlights innovations that are changing how we live, work, play, and think about what’s possible EVx gravity energy storage system technology ...

These findings mark the first time there’s been a link between ... association that is carried over into the invention of writing.” A proto-cuneiform tablet is seen in this image. Proto-cuneiform was ...