The Plain of Jars in Laos
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 7, 2026 Standing on the Plateau: A Field Note Before the Survey The Xieng Khouang plateau is a high country of red laterite and pine, a landscape that holds the late-afternoon light the way a fired clay tile holds heat — slowly, then all […]
The Quest for Atlantis: The Lost Civilization
What Plato Actually Wrote About Atlantis Atlantis is not a place that vanished. It is a story that Plato (c. 427-347 BCE) wrote into two unfinished dialogues, Timaeus and Critias, around 360 BCE, and that the Western imagination has been treating as a missing continent ever since. The quest for Atlantis is, properly read, a […]