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World’s Oldest Human Footprint Found in South...

August 19, 2024

This story was originally published on The Conversation. It appears here under a Creative Commons license. Just over two decades ago, as the new millennium began, it seemed that tracks left by our ancient human ancestors dating back more than about 50,000 years were excessively rare. Only four sites had been reported in the whole of Africa at that time. Two were from East Africa: Laetoli in Tanzania and Koobi Fora in Kenya; two were from South Africa (Nahoon...

Small Crickets Amplify Their Sounds With Savvy...

August 16, 2024

Each week, Atlas Obscura is providing a new short excerpt from our upcoming book, Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders (September 17, 2024). To our ears, a chirping cricket is a peaceful addition to an otherwise quiet night. But the cricket himself isn’t going for laid-back. He wants to be seductive, debonair, and loud. That way females will hear, come over, and—to quote a human song going for a similar vibe—pour some sugar on him....

Resurrecting the Scents of Ancient Cyprus

August 15, 2024

Standing in the arid Mediterranean landscape, take a whiff from the tip of a clay gooseneck bottle. Notes of geranium and thyme hit your nose first, with hints of pine underneath, and then a lingering, complex herbaceousness. To a trained nose, the smell may at first seem distinctly French, reminiscent of Francois Coty’s 1917 Chypre perfume, which became one of the most popular and celebrated scents of the 20th century. But the smell emanating from the bottle is much,...

Stonehenge Has a Scottish Heart

August 14, 2024

The rising late summer sun cuts through the morning fog on the green expanse of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The rays slice across a towering circle of expertly carved stone slabs, casting long shadows. A handful of men gather at the center of the prehistoric megalithic structure, their eyes on the 16-foot-long stone lying at the monument’s heart, the Altar Stone. Like many of Stonehenge’s visitors, the men—researchers from as far as Australia—traveled here to marvel at the...

What's on the Menu in Your Fantasy...

August 13, 2024

Food and fantasy have long gone hand in hand. Our oldest myths and fairy tales abound with ravenous monsters and enchanted apples, while modern fantasy literature has brought us the second breakfast-savoring hobbits of The Lord of the Rings and the sprawling medieval banquets of A Song of Ice and Fire. Fantasy fans rally around official cookbooks from the worlds they love, as well as unofficial recreations and fanfiction that explores the diets of their favorite characters. So it’s...

The Strange Heat Island Lurking Beneath Minneapolis

August 13, 2024

Greg Brick knew it was there, lurking beneath his city, hidden within the Minneapolis water and sewer system: an enticing geologic anomaly called Schieks Cave. For years, he’d read about this maze, carved through the sandstone by rushing water. But his first attempt to find it led to a dead end. Then, in 2000, Brick found a way in. When Brick arrived at the cave, he shined a flashlight into the thick darkness of the city’s underbelly. He found...

Tokyo Metropolitan Medicinal Botanical Garden in Kodaira,...

August 5, 2024

The Tokyo Metropolitan Medicinal Botanical Garden, located in the city of Kodaira, in the western suburbs of the Japanese capital, isn’t your typical green space. Founded in 1946, the seven-acre herbarium is split into 14 sections that consist of specifically-themed greenhouses, farms, and gardens, which are home to more than 1,600 plant species. Most of them have medicinal uses in one way or another, from traditional Chinese medicine to modern pharmaceutics, to culinary pursuits. The grounds host common species such...

Bamboo Creek Tin Mine in Litchfield Park,...

August 2, 2024

Located in the heart of the Kimberley region in Western Australia, Bamboo Creek Tin Mine is a historical mining site that offers a glimpse into the region’s rich mining heritage. The site, now abandoned, stands as a testament to the tin mining activities that once flourished in the area. It can be found within Litchfield National Park. Bamboo Creek Tin Mine was established in the late 19th century during the tin mining boom in Australia. Tin mining in the...

Church of Santa Maria la Nova in...

August 2, 2024

Is the tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the basis for Bram Stoker’s character Dracula, actually located in the cloister of a 13th-century church in the center of Naples? Some researchers believe so, and the church that hosts the tomb, Santa Maria di Nova, happily promotes the connection. Vlad III was Prince of Wallachia between 1448 and 1476, a time during which legends of his cruelty earned him the nickname “Vlad the Impaler.” In the fall of 1476, Vlad’s army was...

The Biggest Sports Rivalries This Year Are...

August 2, 2024

It all started on June 15, 2024, when an Albanian soccer fan at the UEFA European Championship tournament in Germany mocked a rival Italian fan by committing an unspeakable cultural crime: breaking spaghetti in half. In a video that went viral, the Italian fan falls to his knees in mock despair as shards of dried noodles rain from the heavens. Then on June 17, Austrian fans prepared for their match against France by ceremonially smashing baguettes. It was far...

Chonmage-zuka in Hiratsuka, Japan

August 2, 2024

In the city of Hiratsuka, an unusual legend is told and an unassuming mound in the corner of a cemetery attests to its apparent credibility. According to the story, the incident took place during the Kounomachi, an annual festival jointly rub by five major shrines in the former Sagami Province region. Young men from two of the shrines, Samukawa Jinja and Hiratsuka Hachiman-gū, got into a heated argument and a fight broke out, which ended with the latter men...

How an Army of 'Stork Sisters' Protects...

August 2, 2024

Each week, Atlas Obscura is providing a new short excerpt from our upcoming book, Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders (September 17, 2024). Like most dump sites, the Boragaon landfill in Guwahati, Assam, is an overwhelming place, made up of ever-shifting piles of colorful trash. Unlike most dump sites, the Boragaon is overseen by a platoon of enormous, Muppet-like endangered storks known as greater adjutants. Nearly 5 feet (1.5 m) tall, with striking ice-blue eyes...

The Caterpillar Lab in Marlborough, New Hampshire

August 2, 2024

The quaint downtown of Marlborough, New Hampshire boasts little more than a pizza joint, hardware store, and gas station. For this reason, it seems like an unlikely place to see a colorfully painted storefront and a whimsical, three-foot long, crochet caterpillar on the sidewalk. To residents of Marlborough and surrounding towns, the Caterpillar Lab is a unique source of pride and curiosity. Although its creator, Sam Jaffe, harbored a lifelong interest in caterpillars, the lab first began to take...

Fostoria Glass Museum in Moundsville, West Virginia

August 2, 2024

The story of a glass company named after the town of Fostoria, Ohio, is told almost 300 miles away in Moundsville, West Virginia. The company was founded in 1887 near the town of Fostoria, Ohio, to take advantage of a newly discovered natural gas field. But after just four years, the gas was nearly tapped out, and the company had to look for a new location to get their gas. In 1891, the company moved to Morgantown, West Virginia,...

'A Bullet From a Shooting Star' in...

August 1, 2024

In an empty lot next to the O2 arena stands this peculiar sight. The upside-down pylon stands 35 metres tall and was originally installed as part of the London Design Festival in 2015. Its placement provides a perfect spot for those traveling by to ponder its existence—whether it be from the Docklands Light Railway, boat, cable car, or plane. The sculptor, Alex Chinneck, has a penchant for turning the ordinary somewhat extraordinary. His other works include a slumping façade...

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