Around 6,000 years ago, the wheel was invented. The invention was a pivotal moment in human history because it revolutionized everything from transportation and agriculture to craft industries like ...

Many theories have tried to explain when and where the wheel and axle were first invented. A new study examines a relatively recent theory that miners in the Carpathian Mountains created the first ...

The bicycle has come a long way from its wooden-wheeled, pedal-free ancestors. What started as a strange contraption that ...

A set of 12,000-year-old pierced pebbles excavated in northern Israel may be the oldest known hand-spinning whorls – a textile technology that may have ultimately helped inspire the invention of the ...