The Mounds of North America
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2016
The American heartland was once dotted by thousands of ceremonial and burial mounds. They occurred over a large area that stretched from the...
Showing posts with the label Prehistoric
The Ancient Aqueducts of Nazca Desert
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2016
Dotting the landscape across the dry valleys of southern Peru, near the city of Nazca, an area famous for the mysterious Nazca lines, are la...
The Carnac Stone Alignments
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2016
Out of hundreds of megalithic sites across Europe, only a few has achieved popularity, such as the Stonehenge. But other sites are no less i...
The Fine Cave Paintings of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave
Kaushik Patowary
May 23, 2016
Of all prehistoric cave paintings discovered in different parts of the world, the ones at Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France des...
The Altamura Man
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2016
In 1993, a team of speleologist probing a karst borehole in the Altamura Murgia region, near the Italian city of Altamura, stumbled upon a n...
The Prehistoric Rock Art of Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 25, 2016
Tassili n'Ajjer is a vast desert plateau in southern Algeria, stretching from the borders with Niger and Libya to the east, to as far as...
Tarkhan Dress: The World’s Oldest Woven Garment
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2016
This tattered V-neck linen shirt, currently on display in the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, is the world’s oldest woven garment...
Woodhenge: Stonehenge’s Sister Circle Made of Wood
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 10, 2015
Less than 2 miles north-east of the famous Stonehenge stood another Neolithic-age monument but made of timber. Although the wood is long gon...
The Mystery of Puma Punku’s Precise Stonework
Kaushik Patowary
May 16, 2015
Puma punku is the name of a large temple complex located near Tiwanaku, in Bolivia, and is part of a larger archaeological site known as Tia...
Pyramids of The Ancient World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 31, 2014
The pyramids are certainly some of the most mesmerizing historical structures in recorded history. The fact that makes pyramids a unique att...
The Great Serpent Mound of Southwest Ohio
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2014
The Great Serpent Mound is a prehistoric effigy earthwork of a serpent uncoiling located on a wedge-shaped, slightly convex ridge in the rol...
The Plain of Jars
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2014
In the mountains of northern Laos in Xieng Khouang province, are scattered thousands of giant stone jars each weighing several tons. The jar...
The Deer Stones of Mongolia
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 30, 2014
Throughout the grasslands of northern Mongolia and southern Siberia lay scattered hundreds of megaliths bearing mysterious carvings that see...
The Walls of Sacsayhuaman
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 15, 2014
Sacsayhuaman (also spelled Saksaywaman), is one of the most stunning Inca ruins, located on the northern outskirts of the old city of Cusco,...
The Mysterious Cart Tracks of Malta
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2014
In a number of locations across the islands of Malta and Gozo in the Mediterranean sea are complex network of parallel tracks cut into the l...
The Cave of Hands in Patagonia, Argentina
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2013
Prehistoric rock paintings, handprints and stencils span all continents, and began appearing on rock walls around the world at least 30,000 ...
Skara Brae Prehistoric Village in Scotland
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2013
Skara Brae, on the Bay of Skaill, in the Orkney Isles to the north-east of mainland Scotland, was a late Neolithic settlement consisting of ...
The Rude Man of Cerne
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2013
The Rude Man of Cerne, better known as the Cerne Abbas Giant, is a giant figure of a naked man with an inappropriately erect phallus, wieldi...
The Mysterious Moray Agricultural Terraces of the Incas
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 4, 2013
One of the most visually stunning Inca ruins is at Moray, an archaeological site in Peru approximately 50 km northwest of Cuzco and just wes...
