Wall St. Insights Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions.  Chocolate was a big ...

Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day Iraq ... The Sumerians are credited for several of the most fundamental human inventions: the wheel, large-scale architecture, and the earliest ...

including Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, Crete, and Rome. The development of the modern flush toilet started in 1596 ...

Call me basic, but sometimes I just want what I want.

Forget the light bulb. Thomas Edison’s greatest invention was a two-story house in rural New Jersey. In March 1876, Edison set up his famous Menlo Park laboratory—the world’s first research ...

The evolution of coding, from ancient symbols to binary systems, has been pivotal in shaping human civilization.

The concept of credit can be said to date back thousands of years ago to ancient Mesopotamia. Inscriptions on clay tablets from that time period show a record of transactions between Mesopotamian ...

Audience editors: Samantha Cooney, Annabel Gutterman, Soo Jin Kim, Kat Moon, and Kimberly Tal Copy editors: Helen Eisenbach, Mark Hokoda, Anny Kim, Silvija Ozols, Sarah Rutledge, and Jennifer ...

Of all mankind's great advances, the development of writing is surely the giant: I think you can say that it's had more impact on the evolution of human society than any other invention.

There is no shortage of books on the history of money, for the straightforward reason that publishing them reliably convinces ...

In fact, even artificial lenses date back to as early as 700 BC, in Egypt and Mesopotamia ... other people had also claimed to make the same invention and that it was too easy a design to copy.

The wheel is thought to have been invented about 6,000 years ago in Lower Mesopotamia ... the wheel,” because the wheel is a pretty solid invention. The food world has some pretty solid dishes ...