Welcome to the Department of Irrelevant Data's Ancient Knowledge of the Ancient World, where we delve into the utterly useless and obscure technologies of our ancestors.
Here, you'll discover the intricacies of the Ancient Ones' most fascinating failures, from the Ancient Sandal, to the Ancient Flying Machines that were, quite literally, a bunch of sticks and twine.
Read about the Ancient Ones' attempts at creating a toilet that didn't require a separate village to be built around it.
Visit our Ancient Knowledge of the Ancient World for more on the Ancient Ones' most obscure achievements.