While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational technology ...

Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest ...

Some 12,000-year-old stones have been discovered, which may be the oldest example of wheel-like tools. The spindle whorls ...

In this video, we test how fast you can rotate a Lego wheel and tire using a Lego motor and gearing. Watch as we push the ...

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of rotational tools including wheels, according to a new ...

A new analysis of 12,000-year-old stones from Israel shows that they may be the earliest evidence of this society-changing ...

Archaeologists uncover doughnut-shaped pebbles in Israel, revealing possible use as early rotational tools in textile ...

The stones studied by the team predate the cart wheels of the Bronze Age by thousands of years, highlighting a key milestone in the development of rotational tools.

The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that ...

These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.

Researchers have analyzed a collection of donut-shaped, perforated stones an archaeological site dating back about 12,000 ...

After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...