If you’re looking for somewhere a bit more er, rustic, for your next trip to the Middle East, Ghassab Al-Bedoul of Petra Jordan has the perfect accommodations — his 14sqm home.
This is a wall engraving from Abri Castanet, a shallow cave in southern France’s Vezere valley. It’s the oldest known cave etching, probably dating back around 37,000 years — and the researchers claim it depicts female genitalia.
Working as a National Geographic photographer is (thankfully) more than just panther attacks and paraglider crashes. Sometimes you get to explore the underground equivalent of “a previously undiscovered Mount Everest” like photographer Carsten Peter.
There’s a cave in France where no humans have been in 26,000 years. The walls are full of fantastic, perfectly preserved paintings of animals, ending in a chamber full of monsters 400m underground, where CO2 and radon gas concentrations provoke hallucinations.
SwooooOooooOOOOooooossh. Ziiing! SwooooOOOOooooosh. There is no escape… don’t make me destroy you…
Chicago’s mechanised subterranean restructuring project Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP) has bored out a massive complex of man-made caverns. The goal? To prevent flooding and sewage overflow seeping into Lake Michigan. The effect? As you can see here, truly enormous. [BLDGBLOG]
A group of precocious California high schoolers have managed to find a large cave on Mars. Well done, youth of America! When I was in seventh grade, I’m not sure I’d even discovered girls yet.
