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4,000 year wind technology: The real ancient Iranian engineering behind Dune’s windtraps
Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed a different innovation, the windcatcher, a 4,000 year old passive cooling ...
On Wednesday, Nov. 5, University of Massachusetts classics lecturer Joseph Wilson took the students in his course, Technology in the Ancient World, to the glassblowing laboratory of Sally Prasch. The ...
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Archaeologists Unearth 2,100-Year-Old ‘Genius’ Device That Defied Ancient Technology!
The Antikythera shipwreck, discovered off the coast of Greece in 1900, has long fascinated archaeologists. A recent excavation led by Professor Lorenz E. Baumer from the University of Geneva revealed ...
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