The Ancient Engineers

Invention & technology advanced with painful slowness through the 17th century, not because men were stupid, but because the imagination and daring that every innovator must have were limited to a tiny group. It is about these brave men--whose genius enabled the Egyptians to build their pyramids, the Phoenicians to erect magnificent public buildings that this carefully researched account has been written.

"Mr. de Camp has the trick of being able to show technology engaging in feats as full of derring-do as those of Hannibal's army. History as it should be told." - Isaac Asimov