In the Bronze Age, people labored over cereal that no one ate

Shipyard markets, rolling in the grits, and cows saved by cheese. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. June 12, 2019 Ancient Cereal Last week, researchers announced that mysterious rings, found 14 years ago in Austria, were technically ancient breakfast cereal. The discovery casts new light on how cultures in the Late Bronze Age produced and prepared processed grains. Read More → Shipyard Market Dozens of second-hand shops line a 6-mile market in Alang town on India’s western coast. Specializing in second-hand items sourced from old ships, the stores are stacked with everyday and extraordinary goods; from doors and tea sets to mattresses, soft-serve ice cream machines, and lifebuoys. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Chernobyl and Kyiv Next year, join us on a seven-day trip to Ukraine. We’ll visit everything from UNESCO sites to hidden passages beneath the streets of the Ukrainian capital—as well as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the ghost town of Pripyat—as we dive headfirst into centuries of Ukrainian history. Learn more → Wow… I’ve lived in Johor for eight years, and I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve never even heard of Kacang Pool! Will definitely seek it out. —mattpeterturner Visit the forums → Video Rolling in the Grits Every spring, St. George, South Carolina, hosts the World Grits Festival, a three-day event that celebrates all things grits. This year, Atlas Obscura Foods Editor Sam O'Brien participated in the crown jewel of the festival: the Rolling in the Grits contest. Watch Now → Saved by Cheese Despite having perfectly evolved to their harsh surroundings, just 500 Pantaneiro cows remain in the wetland stretching over Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay–and they’re facing extinction. A number of researchers and ranchers have a plan, though: cheese. Read more → NEW HAVEN, KENTUCKY Merton’s Hermitage In the 1960s, Thomas Merton’s writing fame thrust him into the public eye. As a monk, he was not supposed to be famous, angry, or critical, but he was often all three. He eventually built a hermitage, but never quite got to live his sought-after hermit life. Read more → VANDALIA, ILLINOIS The Kaskaskia Dragon Buy a token from the nearby liquor store and you can make this Illinois highway beast spew flames on command. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222