When the first nuclear bombs were being developed during the Manhattan Project, some of the scientists involved were apparently worried that they could cause a chain-reaction that would ignite the en… (View Post)

I actually really like those reconstructed images of Parthenon and greek statues in color. Or the ancient pyramids before people started using them as quarries. Imagine how cool they all must have lo… (View Post)

Here's a fun quiz where you write down the names of all the countries in the world in 15 minutes. According to the results, Grenada and the union of Comoros are the states that people most often miss… (View Post)

Yeah, those last days of Tenochtitlan must have been nightmarish beyond comprehension, with hundreds of thousands of dead from smallpox, starvation and violence in just a few months. Speaking of nigh… (View Post)

Speaking of violent civilizations and the New world, here's a morbid historical fact. The Aztecs and other mesoamerican civilizations would sometimes display the heads of sacrificial victims on tzomp… (View Post)