Spinning yarn is work that has become invisible in modern life. But at the dawn of the American Revolution, it was revolutionary

The first guide to drinking is a Latin poem published in 1536

A momentous change in the status of women began in the 1950s

As Greek geometry developed, it created the concept of an angle as a magnitude

In classical times there were no punctuation marks or spaces between words. Here's how that changed

The earliest graffiti of a person’s name on a monument has been identified by the historian Lionel Casson in a cave at Wadi Hammamat in Egypt — the name of Hena, an official under Menutuhotep III in 2000 BC