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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chicago’s unbuilt masterpiece, the Illinois Tower in 3D modelling. (Image: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, David Romero) It was in Illinois that Frank Lloyd Wright, “the father of modern architecture”, ...

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, ...

The Mordhau technique is a half-sword technique used in the German School of Fencing for combat with a long sword. This medieval combat technique involved holding the long sword upside down with both ...

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 Parma shield was a round Roman shield that was widely used by Roman soldiers from the 1st to the 8th century AD. It resembled the Greek aspis and played a significant role in Roman military ...

The Ljubljana Marshes Wheel is believed to be over 5,100–5,350 years old, making it the oldest of its kind in the world. This ancient wooden wheel from the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) measuring 72 cm ...

Xibalba (freely translated as “Place of Fear”) – the underworld in Mayan mythology, ruled by spirits of diseases and death. Traditionally, the entrance to Xibalba was located in a cave near Cobán in ...

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 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 ...