Antiquity
- Stone Age – Dugout canoes
- 3500 BC – Wheeled carts are invented in Mesopotamia
- 3500 BC – River boats are invented
- 3100 BC – Horses are tamed and used for transport in Botai Egypt
- 2000 BC – Chariots built by Indo-Iranians
- 6th century BC – Diolkos wagonway is built across the isthmus of Corinth.
- 500 BC – Postal system developed in Achaemenid Empire (Persian Empire)
- 332 BC – First documented use of divers or submersibles, during the siege of Syracuse. Alexander the Great, according to medieval legends, used a submersible or diving bell in 332 BC, during the siege of Tyre.
- 312 BC – One of the earliest paved roads, the Appian Way, is built; the Romans eventually built over 50,000 miles of paved Roman roads
- 236 BC – The date ascribed by Vitruvius for the first documented elevator, which he reports as having been built by Archimedes.
- 214 BC – Lingqu Canal is built in China
- 200 BC – The Kongming lantern, is invented in China
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“When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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