It is able to store 1,500 megawatt-hours of energy by compressing air into a massive abandoned underground salt mine in ...

In the spring of 1945, with the Third Reich crumbling, the Nazis hid their stolen art in a sealed salt mine. But when U.S. troops arrived, they found that the opening to the mine had been destroyed.

As Allied Forces advanced across Europe, the Monuments Men discovered stolen treasures hidden underground, in mines across Germany and Austria. Archives of American Art Aerial view of Altaussee salt ...

Loulé's rock salt mine will be converted into an art gallery, starting 17 April, and will be exhibiting the exposition “Salaris – Ficções a Partir do Sal”, with displays from artists like Maura ...

The inhabitants of the mine are themselves preserved in salt, a sort of hermetic stasis that forbids the incursion of the outside world. The mother’s hair remains artificially dark, and her ...

The Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines illustrate the historic stages of the development of mining techniques in Europe from the 13th to the 20th centuries: both mines have hundreds of kilometers ...