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Curious places in Nepal
2 articles, each fact-checked and tied to a spot you can stand on.
AnthropologyGandaki Province
Nepal's 3,000-Year-Old Sky TombsRemote valleys in the Himalayas that remained cut off from the outside world until recently, preserving Tibetan Buddhist culture that was suppressed elsewhere during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Geography protected what politics tried to destroy.
scienceGandaki Province
Worshiping 140-Million-Year-Old GodsSacred shaligrama stones sold at temples are 140-million-year-old ammonites weathered from black shale. Devotees worship fossils without knowing their age. Commerce and religion meeting in paleontology.
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