Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 9, 2016
The Soviet Union’s nuclear program started soon after the end of the Second World War. Tests were conducted in many remote regions such as t...
Leviathan of Parsonstown
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2016
In 1845, William Parsons, an Irish nobleman and the third Earl of Rosse, constructed a large telescope with an enormous 6-feet wide mirror o...
Malaya Zemlya Memorial
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 8, 2016
The Malaya Zemlya Memorial in Novorossiysk, Russia, pays homage to a little known but important battle of the Second World War, that eventua...
Sarajevo Roses: Mortar Scars Filled With Red Resin as War Memories
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 7, 2016
During the Bosnian War of 1992-95, the city of Sarajevo was under siege by the Serbian army for a period of 44 months —the longest siege of ...
Sarai Batu: The Reconstructed 13th Century Capital City of The Golden Horde
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2016
The ancient city of Sarai Batu was located on the lower stretch of the Volga River, about 120 km north of the modern city of Astrakhan in pr...
Fort Alexander, Saint Petersburg
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2016
The city of Saint Petersburg at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, was once protected by a string of forts across the gulf. ...
Spaso-Kamenny Monastery
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2016
The Spaso-Kamenny Monastery is located in a small island in the middle of Kubensky Lake, in Ust-Kubinsky District of Vologda Oblast, about 5...
Abandoned Kennicott Copper Mining Town, Alaska
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 5, 2016
The old mining town of Kennicott in the US state of Alaska is located on the south slopes of Wrangell mountain close to the Kennicott Glacie...
Hassan Tower, Morocco
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2016
In the late 12th century, Sultan Yaqub al-Mansur, the third Caliph of Almohad Dynasty that ruled over West Africa and Iberia, ordered the co...
Sayhuite Stone: An Ancient Hydraulic Scale Model of The Inca Empire?
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2016
About 47 kilometers east of the city Abancay, in southern-central Peru, lies the archeological site of Sayhuite or Saywite, described by his...
