How Easter Island's giant statues "walked" to their final platforms
Moai on Easter Island were likely transported upright by workers using ropes to make them "walk" via rocking motion along purpose-built roads, needing few people.
It's back to the future': the 13th-century castle built by hand in France
A full-scale 13th-century castle has been reconstructed by hand using only medieval tools and locally sourced materials, becoming an ongoing living laboratory since 1999.
Would You Try Ancient Brain Surgery or Mummify a Fish? Sam Kean DidAll in the Name of Science
Experimental archaeology involves doing things—making things, re-creating things from the past. This hands-on approach understands not just what our ancestors made but how they made it.
I Got to Fire a Trebuchet. It Was Even Greater Than I Ever Imagined.
The trebuchet was the most fearsome weapon of medieval times, a giant catapult that could lay waste to any fortress by battering its walls with boulders.