Even at speeds of about 25 miles per hour on Egypt’s irregular soil,
King Tut’s chariots were efficient and pleasant to ride. Read. Via Atlas Obscura Blog.
Archives for August 2010
Ferraris of Ancient Egypt
Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media
From Cave Paintings to the Internet is “designed to help you follow the development of information and media, and attitudes about them, from the beginning of records to the present. Containing annotated references to discoveries, developments of a social, scientific, theoretical or technological nature, as well as references to physical books, documents, artifacts, art works, and to websites and other digital media, it arranges, both chronologically and thematically, selected historical examples and recent developments of the methods used to record, distribute, exchange, organize, store, and search information. The database is designed to allow you to approach the topics in a wide variety of ways.”
Illustration: coptic bookbinding.
