John H. Bryan, inside the fort once its plaster walls had been removed to reveal the log below. Courtesy John H. Bryan. 14. ... a log fortress dating to the American Revolution.

Mechanical engineer Robert Beckman inherited a lot of money in the 1940s and, not having to work, spent the next four decades building a miniature railroad steam engine. Beckman made almost every o… ...

The fortress is known as Khar Nuur and was part of a long wall that extended throughout the countryside. It was built sometime between the 10th and 12th centuries during the Kitan Liao Empire.

A sprawling 3,500-year-old fortress offers tantalizing clues about a culture that once dotted the southern Caucasus mountains with similar walled communities. Archaeologists recently used a drone ...