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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 Dubai City Tower, also known as the Dubai Vertical City, is a proposed ultra-tall skyscraper in Dubai, designed to house tens of thousands of permanent residents. The tower is intended to stand ...

Planned for Tokyo Bay, Japan, the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid is a massive metropolis in the form of a gigantic pyramid. The Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid is 6,575 feet (2,004 meters) tall, or roughly 14 ...

Dahu: A Fabled Goat of French, Swiss, and Italian Villages The Dahu, a mysterious mountain goat, adapts with two shorter legs, baffling hunters who visit the Alps.

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 ...

The Celts are Indo-European peoples originating from the Danube Valley, who settled in much of Europe in antiquity. These tribes spoke the same language, with variations, and shared certain religious ...