Unlike its distant galactic cousin, this Death Star doesn’t orbit…it squats. Vast and immovable, it rises like a bricked-up Mongol yurt on steroids, shimmering out of the Khorasan grasslands with the sort of architectural menace even a crusading Luke Skywalker might hesitate to storm. This is the mausoleum of Öljaytu, a 25-meter-high dome of solid […]
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Troy Nahumko is an award-winning author currently based in Spain. His recent book, Stories Left in Stone, Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain was published with the University of Alberta Press. As a writer and photographer he has contributed to newspapers and media such as The Globe and Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Toronto Star, The Irish World, The Straits Times, Lonely Planet, Khaleej Times, DW-World, El País, SUR in English and HOY.
