Skeleton Lovers
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2023
Embracing, the act of holding someone or something close, goes far beyond a physical gesture; it is a powerful expression of love that trans...
Showing posts with the label Prehistoric
The World’s Oldest Optical Illusion
Kaushik Patowary
May 10, 2023
In the October 1892 issue of Fliegende Blätter , a German humor magazine, there appeared an image depicting an optical illusion. The image w...
Maliwawa Figures: A Rock Art Style Like No Other
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 19, 2021
Western Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, has a remarkable range and number of rock art sites, rivalling that of Europe, southern Africa and ...
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...
Abu Hureyra, The Place Where Humans Became Farmers
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 28, 2020
Civilization is said to have begun independently across the world at six sites, dubbed the “cradle of civilization. Two of these are in the ...
The 6,000-Year-Old Eel Traps of Budj Bim
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2020
The Gunditjmara people of southwestern Victoria, Australia, have been living in a region of roughly 7,000 square kilometers west of Hopkins ...
Gabon’s Ancient Nuclear Reactor
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2019
The nuclear age might have begun in America, but it was in Gabon where the world’s first fission reaction started. Gabon is one of the rich...
The Giraffes of Dabous
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2019
In northern Niger, about half-way between the towns of Agadez and Arlit, and a few miles west of the tar road connecting these two places li...
Crannogs: Neolithic-Era Artificial Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 23, 2019
The Neolithic people of Great Britain were prolific builders. Just look at the British Isles—they are studded with countless ancient megalit...
The World’s Longest Dinosaur Trackway
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 27, 2019
In the French village of Plagne, in the Jura Mountains, 200 kilometers east of Lyon, there is a set of huge footprints made 150 million yea...
Edwin Smith Papyrus: The 3,600-Year-Old Textbook of Surgery
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2019
In 1862, an American Egyptologist named Edwin Smith bought an ancient scroll of papyrus from an Egyptian dealer. Smith didn’t know how to re...
The Oldest Bridge In The World
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 19, 2018
The ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, located approximately midway between the modern cities of Baghdad and Basrah, in southern Iraq, is one o...
The Lost City of Cahokia
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2018
A thousand years before Columbus's men would land on the shores of America, a new city was sprouting on the floodplains of modern-day St...
The Mysterious Sajama Lines of Bolivia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 30, 2017
Crisscrossing the highland plains in western Bolivia is a network of thousands of near perfectly straight lines etched into the ground. Thes...
The Devil’s Corkscrews
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2017
In the mid-1800s, ranchers across Sioux County, in the US state of Nebraska, began unearthing strange, spiral structures of hardened rock-li...
Paracas Candelabra of Peru
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2017
The Nazca Lines in southern Peru are some of the best known geoglyphs on earth, but they aren’t the only ones in the Nazca desert. About 200...
Hattusa: The Ancient Capital of The Hittites
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 29, 2017
One of Turkey’s lesser visited but historically significant attraction is the ruin of an ancient city known as Hattusa, located near modern ...
The Stone Labyrinths of Bolshoi Zayatsky Island
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2017
Bolshoi Zayatsky is a small island belonging to the Solovetsky archipelago in the Onega Bay of the White Sea, in Russia. The island is home ...
The Big Circles of Jordan
Kaushik Patowary
May 18, 2017
The Big Circles are a collection of 12 giant circular stone structures spread across parts of Jordan and Syria. Despite they being over 2,00...
Grime’s Graves: A Neolithic Flint Mine
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2017
This strange lunar-like landscape in the middle of Thetford Forest in Norfolk, England, looks very similar to mortar craters in Normandy an...
