Designed by the Greek inventor Heron, this coin-operated holy water dispenser was used in Egyptian temples to dispense water for ritual washings. Worshippers would place a coin into the machine and ...

Ancient civilizations around the world had clever inventions that were so ahead ... Around 4000 BCE, Egyptians developed a solar calendar with 12 months of 30 days and five extra days to complete ...

Ancient Egyptian mythology held that Abydos served as the burial place for Osiris, god of the underworld. Many of history’s earliest pharaohs also chose to be interred there inside a sprawling ...

The invention of the shaduf was very important ... in the East caused the river levels to rise downstream. In Ancient Egyptian times, most years, the river then flooded onto the land surrounding ...