The Lost Tomb of Genghis Khan
Kaushik Patowary
May 7, 2019
The death of Genghis Khan is shrouded in secrecy. The Great Khan died in the summer of 1227, during a campaign against the Tanguts, along t...
Trümmerfrauen: The Women Who Helped Rebuild Germany After World War 2
Kaushik Patowary
May 6, 2019
After the end of World War 2, one of the main tasks was to clear the urban areas of ruin and start rebuilding Europe—Germany in particular, ...
The Hand of Glory
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2019
At the Whitby Museum in North Yorkshire is a strange artifact—a dismembered hand, dried and shriveled. It once belonged to a man who was han...
Berezniki: The Russian City Swallowed By Sinkholes
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2019
The city of Berezniki, in Russia’s Ural mountains, is slowly sinking into the earth. The city of more than 150,000 individuals was built dir...
The Rockets of Mysore
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2019
Rockets were originally invented not to send things into space, but to shoot enemies with. Their effectiveness in warfare was demonstrated ...
Alexander Mitchell: The Blind Engineer Who Gave Sight to Seafarers
Kaushik Patowary
May 1, 2019
Sandbanks are a hazard to marine traffic . Often found near coastlines, near the mouth of a river and around ports, these shallow, submerged...
Human Decomposition in Japanese Artwork
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 29, 2019
In traditional Buddhist teachings, contemplating about death is an integral part of meditation. Buddha himself said that death is “the gre...
Why Victorian People Loved Posing Next to Aspidistra Plants
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 26, 2019
Potted plants have been a part of households for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all kept houseplants in thei...
The Crooked Trees of Hafford
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2019
Approximately twenty kilometers northwest of the town of Hafford, in Saskatchewan, Canada, and just over five kilometers south-west of Altic...
Las Médulas: The Largest Roman Gold Mine
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2019
This incredible serrated landscape of red mountains and green chestnut trees is the result of two centuries of destructive mining carried o...
