The Cave of Swimmers
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 14, 2021
Thousands of years ago, the Sahara was surprisingly green with rich vegetation, trees and lakes that covered almost all of what is now sandy...
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Hells Bells
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2021
Deep down El Zapote cenote, a 50-meter-deep water-filled sinkhole in Quintana Roo, Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula, stalactites take a diff...
The Hellfire Club And Caves
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 12, 2019
Throughout history men have formed clandestine clubs where rich young aristocrats met and indulged in drunken orgies, gambling and carousing...
The Caves of Maresha And Bet-Guvrin
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2019
The Shfela lowlands in south-central Israel, at the foot of the Judaean Mountains, is characterized by a thick layer of soft chalk that was ...
The Salt Mining Elephants of Mount Elgon
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2018
Large herbivores such as elephants often seek out natural mineral deposits such as rocks and soil to supplement their dietary intake of sod...
The Kome Cave Houses And Cannibalism
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2018
Photo credit: Amada44/Wikimedia These smooth walled, well maintained, igloo-shaped mud houses near the village of Mateka, in Lesotho, beli...
The Ice Caves That Never Melt, Even In Summer
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 26, 2018
In the mountains of the Shanxi province in China, is the country’s biggest ice cave—an 85-meter deep bowling pin shaped subterranean structu...
Why Dogs Can’t Stand ‘The Cave of Dogs’
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2018
In the west of Naples, Italy, is a large volcanic area called Phlegraean Fields filled with craters of old, extinguished volcanoes. Lying mo...
Yaodong: China’s Pit Houses
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 30, 2018
For more than four thousand years, on the Loess Plateau in northern China, people have been residing in caves known as yaodong, which is Chi...
The Soledar Salt Mines
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2018
Some 250 million years ago, a part of Ukraine was under a shallow ocean. When the ocean dried up, it left behind a huge deposit of salt whic...
The Rock Houses That Inspired Tolkien
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 28, 2017
In 1777, a certain Joseph Heely of Birmingham published a guide book to the three great West Midland gardens of the mid-18th century with a ...
The Mystery of The Longyou Caves
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2017
In 1992, a strangely curious man named Wu Anai, near the Chinese village of Shiyan Beicun in Longyou County, based on a hunch, began to pump...
Operation Tracer: The Secret Plan To Bury Soldiers Alive Inside The Rock Of Gibraltar
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2017
The great limestone monolith called the Rock of Gibraltar, towering over the small British overseas territory near the southwestern tip of E...
The Underground Homes of Matmata, Tunisia
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2017
A lot of communities around the world, particularly those in hot climates, traditionally live in caves to escape the heat. The Berbers of Ma...
Japanese Holdouts: The Soldiers Who Wouldn’t Surrender
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2017
Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s surrender at the end of the Second Word War came as a blessed relief to millions of Japanese who ...
The Mysterious Caynton Caves
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2017
What appears to be an ordinary rabbit hole in a farmer's field is actually the humble entrance to a large underground cave whose origins...
Gilmerton Cove of Edinburg
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 21, 2016
Just a few meters beneath the streets of Gilmerton, an ex-mining village on the southern edge of the city of Edinburgh, in Scotland, lies a ...
The Hell’s Bells of Cenote Zapote
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2016
Deep below the surface, inside the water filled caverns of Cenote Zapote in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, stalactites grow into strange sh...
The Forgotten Tunnel Under Naples Filled With Vintage Cars
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2016
One hundred and fifty meters from the large public square of Piazza del Plebiscito in central Naples, Italy, is an entrance that descends ab...
The Catacombs of Odessa
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 6, 2016
Underneath the city of Odessa, in Ukraine, is an extensive network of tunnels believed to be the largest catacomb system in the world. Large...
