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 ...

Sunshine and seasonal spirit make for a one-of-a-kind Los Angeles Christmas. Even though it’s becoming warm around Christmastime, Los Angeles is all decked out for this holiday with plenty of events ...

During Christmastime, London becomes a jolly place, making for an enchanting Christmas experience. Across the city, ice skating rinks spring up, and the streets are lit up with Christmas lights. You ...

In many derogatory titles that had little to do with the actual inhabitants of the area, Tartaria became the most popular term for Central Asia and Siberia in European sources. European knowledge of ...

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 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 ...

The flamberge sword was advantageous because its blade significantly reduced the striking surface upon contact with the target. The concentrated force of the wavy blade’s impact made the curved edge ...

The Sky City 1000 is a project to build a mega-skyscraper that is 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) tall. It was first proposed by Takenaka Corporation in 1989. The Sky City 1000 was formerly known as Tokyo’s ...

It is believed that before the first Mesopotamia wheel, the domestication of sheep and the use of wool led to the creation of the spindle whorl, which is a spinning tool with a circular flywheel ...

Shepherds and nomads first used the shepherd’s axe centuries ago in the Carpathian Mountains. It evolved from the specific needs of mountainous living and combined the functionality of a cane, an axe, ...

What was the role and life of women in the Middle Ages within medieval society? Their existence varied according to age and social status, their place within the family, their role in the couple, ...

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 ...