The Sumerian city is a splendid sight ... so obviously useful and so ripe for invention. Potter’s wheels were an ancient technology by this time. The city had streets that were flat and smooth ...

Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...

A NEW discovery could shed light on when the first set of wheels were first invented. Scientists have discovered a set of ...

Archaeological findings in Israel push the wheel's origins back to 12,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

While spindle whorls demonstrate an early form of “wheel and axle” technology, it would take another 4,000 years before this ...

but instead a potter’s wheel constructed in Mesopotamia (likely by the Sumerians) around 4000 BCE. Yet another theory points ...

was invented around 6,000 years ago somewhere in Mesopotamia. Together with the axle it revolutionized human technological history and in time led to the invention of carts, potter wheels ...

NARRATOR:'Like this potter's wheel that was invented over six thousand years ago. In Ancient Sumer.' NARRATOR:'The job remained the same until a few hundred years ago NARRATOR:'when machinery once ...