The upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is turning back the clock in the best way possible, bringing back a full roster of those party modes players have been missing. You will see Prop Hunt return – that ridiculous hide-and-seek setup where you end up disguised as random objects, trying to blend into the map. Sticks & Stones is coming back too, p…[Read more]

“Greek fire” (more accurately, the Byzantines’ liquid fire) was a short-range naval flamethrower used from the 7th–14th centuries CE. Unlike pitch pots or flaming arrows, this was a projected incendiary: a pressure-pumped stream of burning liquid blasted from bronze nozzles on ships. Contemporary accounts emphasized terror at sea: flames that cl…[Read more]

Ancient Technology researcher William Sosa has spent three decades reverse-engineering the Dendera Light from a sequence of reliefs in the Hathor Temple at Dendera that depict a large, bulb-like vessel emerging from a lotus, supported by a djed pillar and “handled” by attendants with wands/knives. Rather than treating it as a room lamp, Sosa rea…[Read more]

What if the fastest way to understand an ancient site isn’t to ask “what does this symbol mean?” but “what job does this shape do?” Engineers don’t draw icons; they draw functions—channels, chambers, couplers, drains. Read temples with that mindset, and the architecture starts behaving like a diagram. This post lays out a practical, testable meth…[Read more]