Chariots were the express vehicles of their day but how did they work? And what about the roads, tunnels, and bridges that they relied upon? Transport networks also indispensable in our fast-paced world, we've learned from our ancestors.
Far back as the Bronze Age, humans building ships to cross oceans and trading between continents. The greatest surviving The Mary Rose, Henry VIII's mighty warship. It was a true engineering wonder, but one built with a fatal weakness.
Before the start of recorded history, ancient engineers across the World were erecting giant monuments. What was their purpose? And how did they move massive slabs of stone across hundreds of miles long before the wheel had been invented?
Awe-inspiring palaces are the legacy, the brilliance of Islamic engineers, working centuries before Europe began its own engineering revolution. A process that culminated in, arguably the most beautiful building in the World the Taj Mahal.