Why do we move the clocks forward and back? Does daylight saving time actually save energy? And is it bad for our health? Find the answers below. Daylight saving time was proposed by Benjamin Franklin ...

A city built by a demigod? At least, that is how the Romans imagined the birth of Pompeii, as well as its neighbor Herculaneum, which they believed to be the work of Hercules. However, the reality is ...

This is the hollow on Tisenjoch where the well-known glacial mummy Ötzi was discovered. His location is shown by the red pinpoint. But the question is, how did Ötzi get there? A recent review of the ...

Romania has its own traditions and rituals on Christmas Eve (Ajunul Crăciunului). On this day, December 24, the Christmas tree is decorated, and the celebrations officially start. On this day, kids ...

When the Temple of Luxor was built, the city was then called Thebes and served as the capital of the New Kingdom. Located 500 kilometers south of Cairo, this city is today the starting point for many ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Lucerne hammer is a type of polearm weapon, which combines the features of a stabbing, striking, and polearm weapon. It was used extensively by European infantrymen from the 15th century up to the ...

The sarissa is a spear that was in use in the early third century BC and was between 180 and 300 inches in length (4.5–7.5 m). During Alexander the Great‘s conquests and the Wars of the Diadochi, this ...

A horseman’s pick was a one-sided protrusion on a cold weapon that was both a blunt and an edged weapon used for delivering a pinpoint strike. It had a spike or beak that could be flat, faceted, or ...

The crossguard of this weapon served the purpose of blocking enemy weapons. It could also be folded back, functioning as hooks for grappling with opponents, such as dismounting riders from their ...