Precision Artifact

A geared bronze calculator that modeled the movements of the sun, moon and planets.

A Neolithic skull showing two healed surgical openings. The patient survived.

The oldest known Acheulean hand axes, shaped symmetrically on both faces.

A bronze disc inlaid with gold, often described as the oldest concrete depiction of the cosmos.

Around 40,000 hard-stone vessels found in galleries beneath the Step Pyramid, many far older than th...

Among the oldest pottery known, made about 20,000 years ago by hunter-gatherers.