Ultimate Places

A team of Polish Archeologists have discovered the largest pre-dynastic brewery found so far in Egypt’s Nile Delta. What does this show? Well if prostitution is the oldest profession, being a brewer has to be a close second.
Besides objects from the brewery, it seems they found a number of other interesting objects. Here’s an excerpt […]

A recent article exploring the authenticity of an ancient map, suggests the possibility that the Chinese discovery of America might actually be true. Here is a excerpt.
A map that purports to show Chinese mariners discovered the New World before Christopher Columbus could be genuine, university scientists in New Zealand said yesterday.
The map, said […]

For those who aren’t immediately familiar with the term “Sequoia”, this U.S. national park is named after the giant trees that live within its boundaries. Sequoia’s by most accounts are largest trees on Earth, with the largest tree known to exist, being the Giant Sequoia known as “General Sherman”. The General Sherman tree is […]

Stretching more than 2300 km, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the World. By comparison the next largest reef system, which is off the coast of Belize, is only 290 km in length. The oldest living corals on the reef are approximately 1000 years old. However, much of what the […]

An ancient Greek sarcophagus dating back more than 2500 years has been found on the island of Cyprus. Only two other sarcophagus like it have ever been found. Here is a excerpt from the article.
NICOSIA, Cyprus Mar 20, 2006 (AP)— A 2,500-year-old sarcophagus with vivid color illustrations from Homer’s epics has been discovered in western […]

Here’s an interesting article out of Jakarta, about the illegal salvaging of ancient sea wrecks from Indonesian waters. They say over 463 ship wrecks, some more than a 1000 years old could exist among Indonesia’s islands. I’m assuming many of these ships are the result of Chinese trade fleets that grew in size and […]

Much of knowledge of Plitvice, and my decision to profile the Park, comes from the PBS program Nature, which aired an episode about this wild region of Europe 4-5 months ago. Plitvice contains some of the last remaining old growth forest in Europe and is home to some of the last wild brown bears and […]

It almost goes without saying that the Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of the greatest natural wonders of the world. And while it is probably very well known, it still ranks in my top 10 natural wonders to visit.
There are two things about the Grand Canyon that I find absolutely fascinating, the first is […]

Ran across a couple of interesting blog posts dealing with rapid geologic changes occuring on the East Coast of Ethiopa. This section of Ethiopa is part of the Great Rift Valley system that cuts down through much of East Africa, and includes the Red Sea and the Arabian Peninsula.
As the BLDG Blog put it best:
The […]

Here’s an interesting story out of Bangladesh. They have found the remnants of an ancient city located along a historic trade route. The city is located near the present town of Wari, which is 53 miles northeast of the capital of Dhaka. The city is believed to date back to 450 B.C. and been part […]