Explore the fascinating ancient spinning machine part displayed in the Cairo Museum of Egypt. This intriguing artifact, officially called a "lotus flower vase," was found at the site of Saqqara ...

Ancient Greek thinker Archytas built one of the first flying machines long before Leonardo da Vinci sketched his own and drones soared.

Cranes first appeared in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago, but new research suggests a primitive lifting machine—a kind of forerunner to the crane—was in use around 150 years earlier.