Click here to read about ancient inventions we still use today. Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons. 1. Paper. ... There is some evidence that pancakes date back to the Stone Age.

From pancakes in the Stone Age to hair braiding in 3500 BC, many cherished items trace back thousands of years. Even some inventions credited to modern innovators were actually just improvements ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...

The oldest known architectural plans have been discovered in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, archaeologists say. The engravings, between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, depict desert kites, vast structures ...

The Stone Age may have to be renamed following the discovery that early humans were building wooden structures nearly half a million years ago, archaeologists have said. Two planks of worked wood ...

For her, the notion that our Stone Age forebears were artisans serves to humanize them. “Working wood is slow, even if you’re good at it,” she said.

The oldest known architectural plans have been discovered in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, archaeologists say. The engravings, between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, depict desert kites, vast structures ...