The famous Archimedes Screw may have been invented centuries before Archimedes. | The History Page

Archimedes’ Screw: The 2,000-Year-Old Water Lifter While Archimedes of Syracuse is credited with the water screw in the 3rd century BC, its origins may be centuries older. Some historians, including Assyriologist Stephanie Dalley, argue that the technology was used to water the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Evidence from cuneiform inscriptions suggests that the Assyrian king Sennacherib employed water screws in palaces and gardens around 700 BC. This places the invention nearly 500 years