Inventions & Heritage

It’s famous that the iPhone opened the smartphone era in 2007. But a commercial product combining phone calls, email, and touchscreen apps in one device… Read More »There Was a Smartphone 13 Years Before the iPhone

The story of soldiers hidden inside a giant wooden horse who brought down Troy in a single night wasn’t actually completed by Homer, but by… Read More »Was the Trojan Horse Real? What the Burnt Walls Schliemann Recovered Reveal

The Jagyeongnu, built by Joseon in 1434, was an automatic time-announcing water clock that sounded the bell, drum, and gong on its own every hour,… Read More »The Clock That Struck the Bell by Itself: the Jagyeongnu — Joseon’s Automatic Water Clock Revived by Records

Printed with movable metal type at Heungdeoksa temple in Cheongju, Goryeo, in 1377, the Jikji Simche Yojeol is the oldest surviving book in the world… Read More »Jikji: The Oldest Surviving Book Printed with Movable Metal Type, 78 Years Before Gutenberg

Erected in 781 in Chang’an, the capital of Tang China, the Nestorian Stele records in Chinese and Syriac the story of a Christian community that… Read More »A Stone Buried and Unearthed Again: The Xi’an Nestorian Stele, Christianity in China 800 Years Before the Jesuits