Watch as a very old ironwood tree meets modern engineering in this massive sawmill. The giant sawing machine effortlessly slices through the centuries-old wood, revealing its dense, durable nature.
Built around 550 BC, it’s one of the earliest large-scale tunnel projects in history. Public Domain Even by modern standards, the ancient Tunnel of Eupalinos on Samos, Greece is considered a marvel of ...
The city’s ability to thrive in the middle of a desert, supported by an unparalleled water system, remains one of the most impressive achievements of ancient engineering. Today, Petra’s ...
The writer is a biomedical systems engineer and author of ‘Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World’ Ancient India’s greatest engineering achievement wasn’t a monum ...