Tomb of Eve, Jeddah
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 24, 2022
Did you know that Eve, that same Biblical Eve whom God supposedly created out of Adam’s rib, remains buried in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? Some ...
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Slovak Radio Building: The Inverted Pyramid
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 11, 2020
Some call it ugly. Others defend it for its architectural features. Whichever faction you side with, you can’t deny that it is an exceptiona...
The White Volcanoes of Harrat Khaybar
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 25, 2019
Of the millions of pilgrims that visit the holy city of Medina, in Saudi Arabia, every year to pray in the Prophet’s Mosque, few people are ...
The Mega Hotels of Mecca
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 30, 2017
A mammoth new hotel is rising in Saudi Arabia’s holy city Mecca. When completed it will have 10,000 rooms spanning more than 1.4 million squ...
The Al-Rajajil Standing Stones
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 20, 2017
Al-Rajajil, sometimes referred to as the Standing Men, or Standing Stones, are a collection of some fifty groups of man-made stone columns n...
Saudi Arabia’s Abandoned Hejaz Railway
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 20, 2016
The Hejaz railway that ran from Damascus to Medina, through the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia, was one of the principal railroads of the Otto...
The Mud Brick Villages of Wadi Hadramaut and Wadi Dawan
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2015
Yemen in a desert country located on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, bordered by the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in the ...
Qasr al Farid: The Lonely Castle of Mada'in Saleh
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2015
Mada'in Saleh is an ancient city of pre-Islamic period located in northern Saudi Arabia, about 1,400 km to the north of capital Riyadh. ...
Mina, The City of Tents
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 5, 2014
Mina is a small city located inside a low lying valley in the province of Makkh, in western Saudi Arabia, about 8 km to the east of the Holy...
Al Wahbah Crater: A Pearly White Crater in Saudi Arabia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2013
The Al Wahaba crater (also spelled Al Waba) is located in the Saudi Arabian desert, 254 km from Taif on the western edge of the Hafer Kishb ...
