Salt caves are, at least in a geological sense, very much alive. While, like other caves of chalk, marble or gypsum the rock is dissolved by water that seeps in through cracks, unlike the other... »

Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities, Wonders of Salt, Curious Caves | Edited by

For most city dwellers, pigeons are categorized along with rats, cockroaches and mice as vermin. Not so in 16th and 17th century Iran. Domesticated, pigeons were a valuable resource, or rather,... »

Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan and re_nakaba

While bulldozing salt from the Chehrabad Salt Mine, Iranian miners recently uncovered the sixth "salt man" to be found in the last fifteen years. These "salt men" are in fact ancient corpses... »

Wonders of Salt, Curious Caves, Mummies | Edited by Dylan