The Ancient Egyptians invent boat docks
The earliest known docks were those discovered in Wadi al-Jarf, an ancient Egyptian harbor dating from 2500 B.C.E. located on the Red Sea coast.
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The earliest known docks were those discovered in Wadi al-Jarf, an ancient Egyptian harbor dating from 2500 B.C.E. located on the Red Sea coast.
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Evidence indicates they were created to serve as potter’s wheels around 3500 B.C. in Mesopotamia, 300 years before someone figured out to use them for chariots.
The wheel is invented in Mesopotamia, initially used for pottery Read more
The Sweet Track is a Neolithic timber walkway, located in the Somerset Levels, England. It was originally part of a network of tracks built to provide a dry path across the marshy ground.
The Phoenicians and Egyptians sailed under cloth sails on single log and simple long narrow sailboats.
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The oldest constructed roads discovered to date are in former Mesopotamia, now known as Iraq.
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Wooden oars, with canoe-shaped pottery, dating from 5000-4500 B.C.E. have been discovered in a Hemudu culture site at Yuyao, Zhejiang, in modern China.
Humans of the Hemudu Culture in ancient China invent rowing oars Read more
Constructed between 8200 and 7600 B.C.E., and found in the Netherlands, the Pesse canoe may be the oldest known canoe.
Humans invent the canoe Read more