The artifact comes from a Predynastic cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt, specifically Grave 3932 (an adult male burial). It measures about 63 mm long and weighs roughly 1.5 grams, so small it was easy ...

While they don't always get the credit they deserve, tools have shaped our civilization. From the moment that an early human grabbed a stone to carve a piece of wood, tools have advanced our species ...

Using tool as a slang term is not, however, a modern Princeton invention. Tool is a word with a long history. By the 1660s, a "tool" had come to mean a person who is easily manipulated. "Which made ...

A small metal object discovered more than a century ago is changing what scientists know about ancient Egyptian technology. Researchers from Newcastle University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna ...

Previously published separately under the following titles: History of the gear-cutting machine; a historical study in geometry and machines, c1958; History of the grinding machine; a historical study ...