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Lockville Ruins in Carroll, Ohio

September 17, 2020

Canals made Ohio in the early 19th century the way railroads would later make the West. Water routes from Lake Erie to the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico made it possible for towns and cities to spring up from frontier forests as freight and, by extension, wealth began circulating through the state. Most of those canals are long gone, but their ruins still dot the Ohio landscape in many places, including the remnants of a lock at the...

BallaGNOMEia in Balladonia, Australia

September 17, 2020

Australia’s famous Nullarbor Plain is a lonely, eerie place. Flat and desolate, it draws the adventurous, the nomadic … the strange. Those who have crossed its 1,030 miles have reported UFOs hovering in the sky, and the mysterious Min Min lights dancing on the horizon. In the last few years, however, a growing number of reports have come in of odd, humanoid creatures living along the Nullarbor’s treacherous 90 Mile Straight—creatures so well organized and intelligent that they have...

How Does an Archaeologist Keep Heritage Sites...

September 16, 2020

By the time the recent spate of wildfires began scorching Oregon and fouling the air with smoke, Kassandra Rippee, like most of us, already had a lot of practice wearing masks. Through the COVID-19 pandemic, she has worn one whenever she leaves the house. Now, as fires continue to cough smoke across America’s West Coast, those cloth masks just don’t seem to cut it. The air is sometimes so thick that wandering around feels like being in white-out conditions,...

Minnesota’s ‘Root Beer Lady’ Lived Alone in...

September 16, 2020

For paddlers in Minnesota’s million-acre-plus Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a panorama of lakes and trees stretches as far as the eye can see. Bald eagles, swans, and loons patrol the BWCAW’s waters, deer, bear, and the occasional moose ramble its woods, and its pristine lakes teem with walleye, northern pike, and bass. What you seldom see are other people. Yet this is where Dorothy Molter lived from 1934 to 1986. On the Isle of Pines in Knife Lake,...

Vicus Caprarius in Rome, Italy

September 16, 2020

The Trevi Fountain is one of Rome‘s most notable tourist attractions. But what most visitors are unaware of is that there is an archaeological site hidden right beneath the famed neighborhood. Today nicknamed the “City of Water,” Vicus Caprarius is an ancient Roman apartment complex (insulae) dating to the 1st-century, established after the Great Fire of 64. It was then renovated into a domus, or upper-class house during the 4th-century. During the late 1990s, the site was discovered during expansion work...

Terminillo’s Sword in the Stone in Rieti,...

September 16, 2020

Near the cross-country skiing track on Terminillo, a winter resort famously developed by Italian Dictator Mussolini in the 1930s, a mysterious medieval sword stands as a testimony to an ancient local legend. The sword is set in the stone in an area known as “Cinque Confini” (Five Borders), at a spot where traditionally the territories of five towns met. Those towns are Rieti, Cittaducale, Micigliano, Borgovelino, and Castel Sant’Angelo. It’s said the sword was placed at this location by...

Ivo Zdarsky Is Waiting Out the End...

September 16, 2020

Ivo Zdarsky does not talk a big game. He has a gentle, easygoing manner and a gap-toothed smile, with a staccato laugh and a soft voice. He pauses sometimes before he speaks, measuring his words, which are pronounced in a gentle Eastern European accent, a vestige of his youth in Czechoslovakia. Zdarsky does, however, live in a big house. In an airplane hangar, actually, in Lucin, Utah, an abandoned railroad town of which he’s the sole inhabitant. “I don’t...

Rocca Sforzesca in Imola, Italy

September 16, 2020

Rocca Sforzesca is a stunning example of the evolution of castles and fortifications between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Its origins date back to 1261 when a 10 tower structure was built on the remains of a pre-existing tower from the 11th-century. At the end of the 15th-century, the rectangular towers proved to be completely unsuitable for countering firearms, such as cannons. Between 1472 and 1484 the towers were changed into thicker circular structures and renovated by the...

The Cobweb Picture in Chester, England

September 16, 2020

It’s no surprise that being the center of Christian worship in the city since 1283, Chester Cathedral has many depictions of Christ and the Virgin Mary. The cathedral is over 700 years old, so one would expect to see a cobweb or two. However, Chester Cathedral is home to a set of cobwebs that actually comprise a rare piece of artwork. It’s the only cobweb picture in the United Kingdom and is one of only a few that still...

Indigenous Artists Are Reclaiming Masks as a...

September 15, 2020

Many North American Indigenous cultures—from the Haida First Nations on Canada’s West Coast to the Hopi in the American Southwest—incorporate masks in their ceremonies, legends, and other cultural practices. So, confronted with the reality of the pandemic, in which masks have taken on a very different cultural and political significance, two Indigenous artists in Canada, Nathalie Bertin and Lisa Shepherd, decided to make them part of a global art practice. “Masks have really freaked some people out,” Bertin says....

What Wildfire Archaeology Tells Us About the...

September 15, 2020

This work first appeared on SAPIENS under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Read the original here. As I type, the American West is ablaze with more than 100 devastating wildfires. Many of these are record-setting in both size and intensity. Several, including one in my home state of Colorado, have been so intense they’ve created their own thunderstorms. Science shows that wildfires have been getting more destructive over the last several decades. The question is: Why? Are they getting...

Acorn Woodpeckers Have Multi-Day Wars, and Birds...

September 15, 2020

Power struggles are messy affairs, even in the world of acorn woodpeckers. Dozens of birds, grouped in coalitions, can fight for days on end, while spectators fly in from nearly two miles away to witness a battle for the right to breed. And word spreads fast—when a bird’s death creates a vacancy in prime territory, the battle to fill it breaks out within minutes, and faraway onlookers can arrive in less than an hour. These are some of the...

Mya Thein Tan Pagoda in Min Kun,...

September 15, 2020

Serving as a memorial and modeled on a mythical location, the Mya Thein Tan Pagoda (also known as Hshinphyume Pagoda), is a large white pagoda located close to The Mingun Pahtodawgyi. Constructed by King Bagyidaw in 1816, the Mya Thein Tan Pagoda represents Mount Meru, a sacred Buddhist mountain. The seven-tiered terraces resembled the mountain ranges topped by a stupa representing the legendary Sulamani pagoda. The king had the pagoda constructed in memory of his beloved consort and cousin,...

Mausoleum of Yugoslav Soldiers in Olomouc District,...

September 15, 2020

When the arms of the world are unleashed, soldiers are often pitted against one another—on the basis of royal and national allegiance alone—even though they share so much culturally and historically. During World War I, Czechs and Serbs fought on the southern front, sometimes against their will. In some cases they refused to fight each other at all, which Czechs choosing to die under the machine gun fire of their German officers. As the newly found republics of Yugoslavia...

John Goodway Sycamore Tree in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

September 15, 2020

Once thought to be the largest American sycamore in the state of Pennsylvania, the John Goodway sycamore has long been overshadowed by taller or wider trees. It’s often obscured by various shrubs and its suburban surroundings. This tree is a giant nonetheless, deemed a “Champion tree” by the Pennsylvania Forestry Association. A title indicating that it’s one of the largest of its species in the entire state. The tree garnered its name from an indigenous American man, who was...

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