Ashkelon Dog Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 5, 2024
About 50 km south of Tel Aviv, on the Mediterranean coast, near the ancient city of Ashkelon, archaeologists from the 1985 Leon Levi Expedit...
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The Grave of Harry Potter in Ramle, Israel
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 15, 2023
In the British Commonwealth war cemetery in Ramle, Israel, is a grave that has been receiving quite a lot of footfall from tourists in the p...
Shapira Scrolls: Forgery or Genuine?
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2022
In 1883, a Jerusalem antiquities dealer named Moses Wilhelm Shapira announced the discovery of a remarkable artifact—15 fragments of ancient...
When Israel Erased Color From Television Broadcasts
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 10, 2021
The first television broadcast in Israel was black and white, but unlike most nations, it wasn’t due to the lack of technology to broadcast ...
The Great Glass Slab at Beth Shearim
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 26, 2020
In a cave adjacent to an ancient cemetery near Beit She'arim, an old Jewish town in northern Israel, there lies a huge slab of glass app...
Black Weddings: Marrying in The Time of Cholera
Kaushik Patowary
May 5, 2020
Last month, a peculiar wedding ceremony took place at a cemetery in Bnei Brak, a city in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv. With government re...
The Caves of Maresha And Bet-Guvrin
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 25, 2019
The Shfela lowlands in south-central Israel, at the foot of the Judaean Mountains, is characterized by a thick layer of soft chalk that was ...
The Immovable Ladder of Jerusalem’s Church of The Holy Sepulchre
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2018
Underneath one of the arched windows of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Old City of Jerusalem, there is an old wooden ladder casual...
Rhythmic Springs
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 15, 2017
Rhythmic springs are those springs that exhibit tidal characteristics. In other words, the water level of these springs rises and falls over...
Rujm el-Hiri: Israel’s Stonehenge
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 1, 2016
This ancient megalith monument, consisting of concentric stone circles and a tumulus at the center, although looks impressive from the air, ...
These Streetlights in Jerusalem Bloom Like Giant Flowers
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 30, 2015
Tel Aviv based HQ architects has created an urban installation called “Warde” located in Vallero Square, in the heart of Jerusalem. Warde is...
The Mysterious Desert Kites
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 14, 2015
In the 1920s, pilots of the Royal Air Force flying over the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt saw strange line shapes in the ground that t...
Herodium: The Palace and Tomb of King Herod
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2014
Located 12 km south of Jerusalem, in the Judean desert, Herodium looks like an extinct volcano, but it really is a fort built by King Herod ...
Yom Kippur, The Day When Israel Goes Car Free
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 7, 2014
For twenty-four hours each year, all cars goes off the road all over Israel in celebration of Yom Kippur, also known as Day of Atonement - t...
Moshav Villages of Israel
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 24, 2014
Moshav is a type of agricultural community in Israeli consisting of a group of individual farms. The moshav is generally based on the princi...
The Monastery of Wadi Qelt
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2014
Wadi Qelt is a rocky canyon located in the Judaean Desert in the West Bank, originating near Jerusalem and terminating near Jericho, near th...
Strange Salt Formations in the Dead Sea
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 17, 2012
The Dead Sea is located in the Jordan valley bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west, and about 55 km southea...
Psychedelic Stalactite Formation at Avshalom Cave, Israel
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 19, 2012
Avshalom Cave also known as Soreq Cave or Stalactites Cave is located on the western slopes of the Judean mountains near Bet Shemesh in Isra...
11 Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2012
Ever since man learned to grow their own food and rear cattle, they have been living in permanent to semi-permanent settlements with certain...
Snake Massage Spa in Israel
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 29, 2011
An Israeli health and beauty spa is offering a creepy new service for its customers - Snake Massage. For just $80 you can have large slither...
