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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...