Studies in Ancient Technology

Africa Alexandria ancient anthrakia Athenaeus baths bellows boiled bowl brazier bronze buildings built burning burnt candles century A.D. charcoal chimneys clay coal cold combustion gases cooking cool copper crucibles developed devices draught early East Egypt Egyptian Europe excavations fire drill fire-signals flame floor FORBES fuel glowing Greece Greek hearth heating chamber heating systems Hence Herodotus Hist hole houses hypocaust invented kiln lanterns later light lighthouse manufacture means melting mentioned Mesopotamia metal metallurgy modern moulds night Orata oven Palestine Pharos Pharos of Alexandria pitch placed Pliny PLUTARCH Polybius Pompeii pots pottery lamps primitive produced psykter Quaest regions resin Rijksmuseum van Oudheden roasting Roman Roman Britain Saalburg Schabb SENECA Sergius Orata shaft furnaces signals smelting snow sometimes splinters stove suspensura tallow tannûr tapers temperature temple Theophrastus thermae torches tree tubuli vessel Vitruv walls wick wine wood