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This Mesoamerican deity, whose name means “Feathered Serpent,” was worshipped by both the Aztecs and the Maya under different names and was associated with wind, learning, and the morning star
Quetzalcoatl
This Japanese philosophy, which means “continuous improvement,” is commonly applied in business, manufacturing, and even personal life to promote efficiency and growth.
Kaizen
It’s the only national flag to feature a modern firearm—an AK-47 with a bayonet attached to the barrel—crossed over a hoe on a green panel
Mozambique
This iconic statue, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is known as the Christ the Redeemer statue
Christ the Redeemer
This ancient civilization, known for its pyramids and pharaohs, flourished along the Nile River in Egypt
Ancient Egypt
This red fruit is traditionally thrown in massive quantities during Spain’s “La Tomatina” festival.
Tomato
This ancient Ethiopian script, still used today for liturgical and modern purposes, is one of the oldest alphabets still in use and is written from left to right
Ge'ez
This flag is a plain white field charged with a simple red circle in the center
Japan
This famous structure, located in Egypt, is a colossal stone statue with the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh
Sphinx
The Great Wall of China was built by this ancient civilization to protect against invasions from northern tribes
Ancient china
This now-extinct language isolate, once spoken by an indigenous tribe in Tasmania, has no known relation to any other language and is reconstructed only from a 19th-century word list with fewer than 300 entries.
Peerapper language
This language, spoken by over 900 million people as their first language, is the most widely spoken native tongue in the world
Mandarin chinese
This national flag consists of three vertical stripes colored blue, white, and red
France
The ruins of this ancient city, located in present-day Iraq, were once a major religious and cultural center of the Sumerians
Ur
This ancient civilization, centered in present-day Iraq, is known for developing cuneiform writing and building ziggurats.
Sumer
In Zoroastrian funerary tradition, this type of structure was used to expose the dead to vultures in a ritual practice meant to avoid contaminating the earth or fire
Tower of silence
This traditional festival, celebrated in India and Nepal, is known as the “festival of colors” and marks the arrival of spring
Holi
This country’s flag is the only one in the world to include the color purple, depicted as a native parrot encircled by stars on a green background
Dominica
This remote island in the Pacific Ocean is home to the famous stone statues known as Moai, built by the Rapa Nui civilization
Easter Island
The mysterious ancient city of Machu Picchu was built by this Andean civilization, which flourished in the 15th century
Inca Empire
This landlocked country in central Asia is the world's largest without access to the ocean
Kazakhstan
This endangered ritual chant of the Ifugao people in the Philippines, used in rice farming ceremonies, was inscribed on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding in 2008.
Hudhud chant
Used until 1975, this former nation’s flag was a plain yellow field charged with three horizontal red stripes
South Vietnam
This ancient site in Turkey, known for its towering stone pillars, is considered one of the world's oldest temples, dating back to the 10th millennium BCE.
Göbekli Tepe
This civilization, whose capital was Tenochtitlan, was known for its advanced agricultural practices and human sacrifice rituals before being conquered by Hernán Cortés.
Aztec Empire