When we think of modern innovations, we often picture digital devices, advanced medicine, or sleek engineering. But what if many of the ideas we call “modern” were already in use thousands of years ...

The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.

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Evidence suggests that someone tried to remove the cancer using metal surgical instruments. While the attempt was unsuccessful, it shows that the ancient Egyptians were trying to develop ...

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia ... the sick and injured: surgical instruments, operating ...

While the initial investment in a Matsato knife may exceed that of basic kitchen cutlery, its extraordinary durability and edge retention deliver superior long-term value. Rather than replacing ...

[12] In ancient times ... modified so that a sharp fine instrument was inserted into the eye to break the zonules to cause the dislocation. The first reported surgical removal of a cataract ...

Bismuth, the 83rd element in the periodic table, has been known since ancient times ... Bismuth was also the instrument of alchemy fraud in the London Stock Exchange — in the 1860s, a Hungarian ...

Read about the Arab world’s greatest innovations—from Algebra & surgery to fintech & green energy, these breakthroughs ...