In a series of modern scientific and technological discoveries, repeating and recognizable features of past achievements and discoveries made by our distant predecessors are often noticed. Ancient civilizations almost simultaneously gave rise to a whole series of ideas that significantly changed the way of thinking and the standard of living of society. Today, scientists are discovering a lot of new things from the life of ancient peoples, receiving and challenging new arguments in favor of who exactly belongs to the primacy of certain discoveries, who has truly earned the right to be called the “cradle of civilization.” The next book in the series tells about the 100 most famous technical and scientific achievements antiquity.