Melondy Phillips Staff Writer Going to the store to buy new clothes or to purchase fabric for sewing projects is second ...

They’re literally reinventing the wheel. Scientists might be closer to learning who invented the wheel after discovering ...

Researchers gave a detailed look into perforated stones collected out of excavations in Israel, and came to the conclusion ...

These are believed to be early spindle whorls — small, weighted discs used to spin fibers into yarn more efficiently. This ...

Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the process they ...

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone ...

After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...