#World Heritage Site

Source: Atlas Obscura In midsummer every year, the souqs of southern Iraqi cities such as Basra and Nasiriyah are tinged with gold, from the dust of khirret, a crunchy candy made from the pollen from an aquatic plant that grows in the country’s southern marshes. This delicately-sweetened,

Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers A point of pilgrimage for seekers of all sorts, through the efforts of Maker Faire Galicia‘s forward thinking producers, makers, and innovators Santiago de Compostela looks as much toward the future as into the past. This coming weekend, November

Source: Atlas Obscura Form rarely follows function as purely as it does in functionalist Czech architecture. The minimalist, utilitarian design ideology, which prioritizes functionality above aesthetic, became popular following World War I when the world was hungry for all things “modern.” The

Author: Laurel Hamers / Source: Science News If a tree falls in the forest, will another replace it? Of the roughly 3 million square kilometers of forest lost worldwide from 2001 to 2015, a new analysis suggests that 27 percent of that loss was permanent — the result of land being converted for

Source: Atlas Obscura In the 8th century, at the height of ancient Mesoamerican culture, the city of Quirigua was one of its most important settlements, a World Heritage site that UNESCO calls “one of the major testimonies to the Mayan civilization.” Click here to read more The post Mayan