Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the process they ...

Many theories have tried to explain when and where the wheel and axle were first invented. A new study examines a relatively recent theory that miners in the Carpathian Mountains created the first ...

Archaeologists may have uncovered one of the earliest examples of rotational tools, a discovery that could shed light on the origins of wheel-like devices in human history. Researchers have analyzed a ...