The ancient Incas celebrated the Sun and all it brings with a celebration called the Inti Raymi festival. The legendary Festival of the Inti Raymi was and is still celebrated on the day of the winter ...

The Shaolin monks brought the Gùn (Chinese: 棍), a staff used in their style of stick combat, to Japan. In that region, the gùn underwent various changes before becoming known as the bō. During this ...

Megaris (ancient Greek: Μέγαρίς) is a historical region in ancient Greece, situated to the northeast of the Isthmus of Corinth. Megaris bordered the lands of Corinth (to the south), Boeotia (to the ...

Today, water is essential to a healthy lifestyle, but this was not the case in the 15th century. Several reasons explain this difference in perception during that era: zero knowledge about waterborne ...

The Battle of Camarón (Mexico, 1863) is a foundational episode for the French Foreign Legion, which celebrates this “French version of the Alamo” every year. In 1862, France came to the aid of Emperor ...

This article provides a summary of many of the most infamous nuclear power plant incidents. There is an INES value (International Nuclear Event Scale) associated with the accident’s severity. The ...

X-Seed 4000 is a 13,100-foot (4,000-meter) tall megastructure with 800 floors. It has a capacity for 1 million people living inside at the same time. The X-Seed 4000 is a floating “ocean city” off the ...

The weapon first emerged in the 15th century and was used in Turkey, Hungary, and the borderlands between France and Germany. There were three distinct varieties of the sword: Turkish, Hungarian, and ...

Here is a complete list of some of Ancient Rome’s most famous mothers, daughters, wives, and sisters. The life of women in Ancient Rome were seldom discussed by ancient historians outside of their ...

The Anthesteria (ancient Greek Ἀνθεστήρια, translated as “Flower Festival”) was a festival in the Attic festival calendar. It took place over three days, from the 11th to the 13th of the month ...

The Hwacha weapon was an ancient Korean rocket launcher and an organ gun created at the beginning of the 15th century during the Joseon Dynasty. Called 화차 in Korean, it translates as “Fire Cart.” This ...

The Tokyo Tower of Babel is a proposed hyperbuilding in the city of Tokyo that is 33,000 feet or 6,2 miles (10 km) tall. The Tokyo Tower of Babel was designed as a new megastructure by Professor ...