A Blast From The Past: Episode 11
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 6, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. The Most Expensive Coffee in...
The Por-Bazhyn Fortress
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 4, 2016
In a small island in the center of a remote Lake Tere-Khol, high in the mountains of southern Siberia, close to the Mongolian border, lies t...
The Most Visually Impressive Impact Craters on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 3, 2016
It is estimated that the earth’s surface is struck by about 500 meteorites a year, but only about 5 or 6 are large enough to be detected by ...
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...
Lake Magadi, Kenya’s Pink Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2016
Lake Magadi is located in the Great Rift Valley, in southern Kenya, in a vast depression whose bed is made almost entirely of solid or semis...
The Asbestos Ghost Town of Wittenoom
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2016
One of the most beautiful areas in the Pilbara region of Western Australia is also one of the most dangerous. About eighty years ago, blue a...
The Cheese Caves of Roquefort
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 29, 2016
The pungent odor and tangy taste of the Roquefort cheese, with its distinctive spots and veins of blue-green mold throughout, is not for eve...
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 29, 2016
The Shushtar Hydraulic System in the island city of Shushtar is a complex irrigation system that dates back to the time of the Achaemenid ki...
A Blast From The Past: Episode 10
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 28, 2016
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Giant Crystal Cave in the Me...
The Stick Chart Navigation of Marshall Islands
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 27, 2016
The Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean was settled by the Micronesians more than three thousand years ago. These early settlers had to ma...
