Category: engineering
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St Peters Basilica & Square
St. Peter’s Basilica, standing at the heart of Vatican City in Rome, is a monumental masterpiece of Renaissance and Baroque architecture and one of the largest churches in the world. Built over the burial site of St. Peter the Apostle, the current basilica took over a century to complete, drawing on the genius of master…
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The Vatican
As the world’s smallest independent nation and the spiritual heart of the Roman Catholic Church, Vatican City holds a distinct honor in global heritage: it is the only entire country designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Inscribed in 1984, this enclave within Rome represents an extraordinary synthesis of religion, art, and architectural brilliance spanning…
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My Past Lives
“My Past Lives” explores the concept of reincarnation and karma through a blend of personal narrative and creative AI-generated content. Using General George S. Patton Jr.’s belief in past lives as a historical precedent, Baragaño details his own perceived spiritual history, describing a primeval origin as an Indigenous Australian hunter during the Pleistocene epoch tracking…
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Kerbal Space Program for STEM Education
This is a curiculum segment on Advanced Physics & Engineering for a Project Based Learning (PBL) course end of school year classroom project. Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is the best tool science professors have to teach advance physics in a Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM) simulated environment (Moded with addons to act more like a real space simulation…
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The Great Pyramid of Giza
UNESCO World Heritage Site The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid. It served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Built c. 2600 BC, over a period of about 26 years, the pyramid is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World,…
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Pharaohs, Sphinxs, False Doors
The title “pharaoh” is used for those rulers of Ancient Egypt who ruled after the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt by Narmer during the Early Dynastic Period, approximately 3100 BC. However, the specific title was not used to address the kings of Egypt by their contemporaries until the New Kingdom’s 18th Dynasty, c. 1400…
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Dioramas, Panoramas, Ostracas, Special Gear
Wooden tomb models were deposited as grave goods in the tombs and burial shafts throughout ancient Egypt since its early history, most notably in the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. They included a wide variety of wooden figurines and scenes, such as boats, granaries, baking and brewing scenes and butchery scenes. These served as ways to…
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Akhenaten, Stelas, Paintings, Obelisks
Many Roman Emperors celebrated their rise into power by bringing an obelisk from the province of Egypt to Rome, by that time, capital of the Roman Empire. And obelisk is a one piece, solid rock, architectural structure with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs weighting at most 1300 tons. With today’s technology is very hard to move one…
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The Egyptian Museum Cairo
UNESCO World heritage site The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum, located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world. It houses over 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display. Located in Tahrir Square in a building built in 1901, it is the largest museum…
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Batumi
is the second-largest city of the country of Georgia, located on the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia’s southwest, 20 kilometers north of the border with Turkey. It is situated in a subtropical zone at the foot of the Caucasus. Much of Batumi’s economy revolves around tourism and gambling (it is nicknamed “The Las…
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Architecture, Beach Front
Architecture Batumi is like a beach front resort with the best hotel and casino chain names in the world like the Sheraton, Hilton, Marriott, etc. There has been a huge boom in the construction of high rise buildings since the former US President Donald Trump announce his intentions of building a Trump Tower there, but…