The Udny Mort House
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 1, 2017
Much of what we know about the human anatomy comes from dissecting human cadavers. The practice goes back to classical antiquity. The Greeks...
Madam Coudray’s 18th Century Manikin For Midwife Trainees
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 31, 2017
This crude fabric doll of a small child emerging out of a fabric womb was one of the first life-sized obstetrical manikin used by Angélique ...
Sheela-Na-Gig: The Mysterious Medieval Carvings of Women Exhibitionists
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2017
The Church of St Mary and St David at Kilpeck in the English county of Herefordshire is famous for its Norman carvings of writhing snakes an...
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 ...
Medieval ‘dos-Ã -dos’ Book Bindings
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2017
Back in mediaeval times, when people didn’t have Kindles to carry a thousand books, some book binders bound two separate books together in a...
Japanese Milk Delivery Boxes
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 25, 2017
For many western countries, doorstep milk delivery is a thing of the past, but in Japan, millions of people still rely on the milkman for fr...
The Forgotten Soviet-Era Murals
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 25, 2017
Telling stories through mosaics and murals is a tradition that goes back to antique times. During the Soviet era, murals were used extensive...
The Sacred Grove of Bomarzo
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2017
Once upon a time there was a young nobleman who, after the death of his beloved wife, became so distraught with grief and anguish that he de...
Vozrozhdeniya, The Anthrax Island
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2017
In the 1920s, the Soviet government began searching for an isolated place where they could build a military complex to test biological weapo...
The Forgotten Nubian Pyramids of Meroe
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 21, 2017
About 200 km northeast of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in a valley known as Nubia, lies the remains of three ancient Kushite kingdoms. He...
