Diolkos: An Ancient Trackway That Carried Ships Over Land
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 12, 2018
In ancient times, Greek merchants sailed all around the Mediterranean Sea carrying goods from Spain to Phoenicia and from Carthage to Egypt ...
The War of The Bucket
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2018
In a way, all wars are stupid—but none was stupider than the Battle of Zappolino that was waged over a silly wooden bucket. The War of the ...
The Glass Fishing Floats of Japan And Norway
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 10, 2018
Every year, Oregon’s Lincoln City, on the west coast of the United States, organizes a treasure hunt where more than 3,000 handcrafted glass...
Guillame Legros’s Ephemeral Landart
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2018
These gigantic graffiti artworks spray-painted over the fields and the hillside were made by Swiss artist Guillame Legros, who goes by the n...
Inemuri, The Japanese Art of Sleeping at Work
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2018
In most countries sleeping at work is not only embarrassing, it might even cost one’s job. But in Japan, sleeping in the office is common an...
Dr. Charles Campbell And His Malaria-Fighting Bat Towers
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2018
Sixty years ago the United States took upon itself a challenge—eradicate malaria from the entire country, all 3.8 million square miles of it...
Moldova’s Underground Wine City
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 6, 2018
The tiny landlocked country of Moldova in Eastern Europe is one of Europe’s poorest. “The roads are a bone-shaking ordeal. Horses haul carts...
The Miniature Coffins of Arthur’s Seat
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2018
At the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh are a set of eight miniature coffins carved in wood and decorated with tinned iron. Each cof...
Xiaohe: A 4000-Year-Old Desert Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 5, 2018
In the far eastern edge of the desolate Taklamakan Desert, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest settlement, a clump of dense wooden stake...
The Most Kissed Girl in The World: The Mona Lisa of The Seine
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2018
Sometime in the late 19th century, the body of a young woman was fished out of the Seine River in Paris. Because there was no evidence of vi...
