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Helicopter Hieroglyphs in Markaz Al Belina, Egypt

June 23, 2020

In the Temple of Seti I in Abydos, there is a detail of an ancient Egyptian mural that is believed to be an out-of-place artifact, not unlike the infamous Dendera Light. Created during the reign of Seti I, the original carving translated to “He who repulses the nine enemies of Egypt.” It was later remade by Rameses II into “He who protects Egypt and overthrows the foreign countries.” The plaster he used has eroded away over time, and the...

In Canada, Gold Rush-Era Garbage Reveals a...

June 23, 2020

Dawn Ainsley, staff archaeologist at Canada’s Gold-Rush-era Barkerville historic town and park, was overseeing the installation of a new sewer line in 2012 when diggers struck a different kind of gold: garbage. “Every time we hit a garbage dump we had to stop and monitor it,” says Ainsley of the dig. The site of a largely Chinese-Canadian mining town established in the 1860s, and now an open-air museum, Barkerville is full of meaningful trash, the result of generations of...

Temple of Hercules in Cori, Italy

June 23, 2020

The Temple of Hercules is the best preserved of all the Roman temples in the town of Cori, southeast of Rome, in the region of the Lepini mountains. It dates back to the beginning of the first century B.C., and was built during the age of Sulla in the ancient city of Cora. It’s a doric tetrastyle temple with four columns in the front and four columns per side, with a cella at the back. On the architrave is...

What It’s Like to Be The Namesake...

June 22, 2020

When Ivvet Modinou got the call, she nearly fell out of her chair. A translucent, blue-green worm had been found in the deep ocean off the coast of the Falkland Islands. It was slender and miniscule—about as long as a capital letter is tall on this website. The wriggly thing had three antennae, two pairs of eyes, and fleshy, tapered protuberances sticking out on either side of its body—about as unfamiliar to us humans as any of the other...

Umbilicus Italiae in Rieti, Italy

June 22, 2020

The location of Italy‘s true geographic center has obsessed writers since Roman times. Marcus Terrentius Varro (who was born in Rieti, then known as Reatae) claimed that his home region was Italy’s ombelicus (navel). Initially, the site was believed to be the nearby Lake of Paterno, sacred to the ancient Sabine people, which Pliny also cites in his Natural History: “in the region of Rieti, the lake of Cotilia , where an island floats, is...

The French City Where a Midday Firework...

June 22, 2020

When the clock struck noon on May 11, the day that France began to lift its COVID-19 lockdown, a celebratory boom echoed through the city of Nice. The midday firework was not a response to the gradual ebb of a pandemic, however—it was a return to a decades-long tradition. “Just like towns have their church bells, the countryside has its roosters, and fields have their cows, for the last 150 years, Nice has had its cannon,” Philippe Arnello wrote...

A Franken-Forest of Fruit Trees Is Growing...

June 22, 2020

On Governors Island, just a five-minute ferry ride from Manhattan, art professor Sam Van Aken plots his fantasy orchard. He plans on opening a public park with 50 blossoming trees that bloom into a mosaic of pinks, reds, purples, and whites. Come summer and fall, after the flowers have faded, visitors will be able to leisurely pick among 200 rare varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, and apples. Van Aken is a master at grafting, an agricultural practice that...

Auld Wives Lifts in Campsie Glen, Scotland

June 22, 2020

Situated in the countryside around Baldernock, the Auld Wives Lifts are a local legend. Nobody is quite sure (or can agree) on what they are, what they were for, or how they got there. The an ancient configuration of three large stones, one balanced on top of the other two, is located in a natural amphitheater on a heather-covered moorland called Craigmaddie Muir about a mile due north (and slightly east) of the parish of Baldernock. As well as...

Poço Azul (Blue Pool) in Nova Redenção,...

June 22, 2020

The Chapada Diamantina (Diamond Highlands), in the state of Bahia, is more than 250 miles from Salvador. It may not be near the ocean, but there is water everywhere, thanks to its altitude. Deep, green canyons winds between spectacular rock formations. Just east of the national park, in the drier and desolate Nova Redenção, there’s magic hidden underground. Discovered in 1920 during a quest for diamonds in the region, the Poço Azul or Gruta Azul (also known as the...

The Nickey Line in Hertfordshire, England

June 22, 2020

The Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead branch railway, or the Nickey Line as it is generally known, was a seven-mile-long railway built in 1877 to connect the villages between the West Coast Main Line, which ran north to Birmingham and Manchester, and the Midland Main Line, which ran north to Leicester and Sheffield. The etymology surrounding the term “Nickey Line” is obscure, and there are many competing theories as to how the name originated. The line was initially used mostly...

Fairhaven High School in Fairhaven, Massachusetts

June 22, 2020

If Fairhaven, Massachusetts, has a resident philanthropist, it’s Henry Huttleston Rogers. Rogers, who made a fortune in oil refining, began donating buildings to his hometown in 1885, including an elementary school, a public library, and the sprawling campus of Fairhaven High School. Rogers had the majestic school built in 1905 with an eye toward the future. The building, with its own electric generation plant, a home economics kitchen, facilities for agricultural studies, and the first indoor basketball court in...

Sanctuary of Greccio in Greccio, Italy

June 22, 2020

The town of Greccio, nine miles from Rieti in the region of Sabina, northeast of Rome, is twinned with the city of Bethlehem for a very special reason: In 1223 Saint Francis decided to enact there the first living nativity scene in the history of Christianity. The event is also depicted in the cycle of frescoes on the life of Saint Francis attributed to Giotto in the Basilica of Assisi. Legend has it that the only character who was...

Muzej Šibica in Sremski Karlovci, Serbia

June 22, 2020

Muzej Šibica (Museum of Matches) is a unique museum located in Sremski Karlovci and has a collection of 40,000 matchboxes from all over the world. Jasna Novak, late actress, started collecting the matchboxes in the 1950s, but her stepdaughter Jovana Popović Benišek expanded the collection and opened the museum in 2014. The oldest boxes are from Japan, 170 years old. Museum has an ambition to become a cultural center, to have more art related exhibitions, concerts, and book nights.

Most Na Suvom in Zrenjanin, Serbia

June 22, 2020

Built in 1962 by Rada Janjatov, a project engineer, the bridge connected two shores in Zrenjanin for 23 years, until in 1985, when city authorities decided to change the flow of the River Begej. There was a plan in 2015 to demolish the bridge, but nothing happened and the bridge remains as the obscure symbol of the city. Most Na Suvom is closed for walking, as it is in ruins and unsafe, but it has attracted graffiti art and...

Park Maketa in Despotovac, Serbia

June 22, 2020

Park Maketa is a miniature theme park with models of famous Serbian monasteries and churches, located in Despotovac. This region is well known for having many monasteries, like Manasija, which is only a few miles away. A miniature Manasija is found there, in addition to models of Hilandar, Studenica, Mileševa, Gračanica, and many others. All miniature buildings are built in a 1:17 scale, with a short history and description. The creator says it takes him around two months to build...

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