Technology Archive
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Information, Interaction and Society
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsThe use of data to analyse broader perspectives is not a straightforward process. Unpublished excavation reports, specialist reports, archaeological databases and theses comprise the -
Technology and Autonomous Mechanisms in the Mediterranean: From Ancient Greece to Byzantium
Posted on January 26, 2013 | No CommentsThe paper aims at presenting technology and automation advances in the ancient Greek World, offering evidence that feedback control as a discipline dates back more than twenty five centuries. -
Bread Making and Social Interactions at the Amarna Workmen’s Village, Egypt
Posted on January 23, 2013 | No CommentsThe central role which food plays in all human societies means that food impinges on many aspects of culture. Since archaeology is concerned with ancient culture, ancient food provision seems a natural area to explore. To date, most work has concentrated on raw resources and subsistence, but archaeologists have recently begun to explore food and its relation to culture much more widely. -
Total solar eclipses in Ancient Egypt
Posted on January 21, 2013 | No CommentsThe sun played such an important role in the life of Ancient Egyptians, particularly in their religion that it is surprising that there is virtually no mention of solar eclipses in ancient records from the Nile valley. -
The Ancient Chariots of Libya
Posted on January 20, 2013 | No CommentsI had long wanted to follow in the tracks of the chariots on a journey to the ends of the ancient Roman world to discover something of modern-day Libya. -
The ploion hellenikon of Roman Egypt: What was Greek about it?
Posted on January 15, 2013 | No CommentsThe ploion hellenikon, ?????? ????????? or -
Could ancient Egyptians hold the key to 3D printed ceramics?
Posted on November 29, 2012 | No CommentsA 7,000 year old technique, known as Egyptian Paste, could offer a potential process and material for use in the latest 3D printing techniques of ceramics, -
Machu Picchu: its engineering infrastructure
Posted on November 22, 2012 | No CommentsMachu Picchu, the royal estate of the Inca ruler Pachacuti is the most well-known of all Inca archaeological sites. -
Time and the Athenian Citizen: The Practical Aspect of Time in Ancient Athens
Posted on November 19, 2012 | No CommentsThe theory proposed is that, from the fifth to the first centuries B. C., methods of and devices for marking time intervals were of growing importance to them. -
Decoding an Ancient Computer
Posted on November 7, 2012 | No CommentsNew explorations have revealed how the Antikythera mechanism modeled lunar motion and predicted eclipses, among other sophisticated tricks.
