From mysterious gears to precision tools, the British Museum holds artifacts that don’t quite fit the timeline. Are these traces of lost engineering—or are we missing something?

In Yuhang, on one side lies the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu -- slumbering for 5,000 years -- where jade cong (ritual jade artifacts), ancient dams ... young innovators wield technology like a ...

Beaubien, Harriet F. 2001. "Unmasking an artifact technology: textile/clay composites from ancient Mesoamerica." In Objects Specialty Group Postprints Volume 7 (2000 ...

Many of the 50,000 artifacts in the GEM were moved from the Egyptian Museum, a packed, century-old building in downtown Cairo ...

The 3,500-year-old artifact, likely stolen from Egypt during the Arab Spring in 2011 or 2012, was found at an elite European ...