Ancient egyptian inventions

HAPPY birthday, dear Liv.” Olivia did her best not to roll her eyes. She would never be so ungracious – Jan was, after all, her oldest friend! She weighed the flat, rectangular parcel in her hand. “Yo

Some of today’s technology goes back much further than you’d imagine

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“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

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