THE SEVENTY GREAT INVENTIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

Stone choppers, eyed needles, camel saddles, chariots and contraceptives: the past is paved with remarkable inventions - some fundamental and others just intriguing or bizarre. "The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World" takes us on an eye-opening and unusual journey through human innovations, from the first crude stone tools of our earliest ancestors two-and-a-half million years ago up the early medieval period. (. . .) Leading authorities explore some of history’s most fascinating inventions, beginning with the basic technologies of stone and fire, bone and wood. (. . .) "The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World" is a unique guide to some of humanity’s most remarkable inventions and a testimony to the brilliant ingenuity and opportunism of our forebears, qualities that still serve us well today.