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Inca road systems – the Inca built one of the most extensive road systems in the ancient world. The Incas built upon the roads, which were originally constructed by previous Andean civilizations such as the Chimu, Nazca, Wari, Moche, and others. The Inca also further refined and expanded upon the earlier innovations and systems laid in place ...
Hungarian-American MIT inventor Mária Telkes and American architect Eleanor Raymond created, in 1947, the Dover Sun House, the first house powered by solar energy. Wrinkle-free fiber Wrinkle-free fiber invented by Ruth R. Benerito The invention was said to have "saved the cotton industry".
The Spirit Cave mummy is the oldest human mummy found in North America. [1] [2] [3] It was discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave, [4] 13 miles (21 km) east [5] of Fallon, Nevada, United States, by the husband-and-wife archaeological team of Sydney and Georgia Wheeler.
The archaeology of the Americas is the study of the archaeology of the Western Hemisphere, including North America (Mesoamerica), Central America, South America and the Caribbean. This includes the study of pre-historic/ pre-Columbian and historic indigenous American peoples , as well as historical archaeology of more recent eras, including the ...
Sican tumi, or ceremonial knife, Peru, 850–1500 CE. Metallurgy in pre-Columbian America is the extraction, purification and alloying of metals and metal crafting by Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to European contact in the late 15th century.
Arkasha Stevenson co-wrote and directed “The First Omen,” another film this year in which a religious young woman (Nell Tiger Free) finds herself impregnated by insidious forces within the church.
In Scariest House in America, Retta tours nine terrifying houses throughout the Midwest, Northeast, and South. That includes “a former jail inhabited by bats, an alleged mobster hideout, and a ...
Zhang's seismoscope, also known as hòufēng dìdòngyí, an ancient Chinese seismometer. Multiple modern recreations have been created, but it is debated whether they are mechanical replicas. [9] Hong-sen Yan claims that they do not reach the seismoscope's historically reported level of accuracy and range. [10]