Monochrome portrait of a man in a general's uniform with epaulettes and many orders and medals on his chest. The headline above reads «Father of Terrorism».

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Colonel general in uniform with medals: article on Alexander Sakharovsky

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The Archaeologist's Kit

A pointed, weathered wooden spear is displayed on a stand inside a museum case.

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The Clacton Spear, Found in Essex in 1911, Is the World's Oldest Wooden Spear

The Clacton Spear, 420,000 years old, is the oldest wooden spear in the world. It was found in Essex in 1911

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Restoration of the third-largest Maya pyramid, presumably of the 3rd century, at Teotihuacan, adorned with serpent heads

Restoration of the third-largest Maya pyramid, presumably of the 3rd century, at Teotihuacan, adorned with serpent heads. In the late 20th century the remains of thousands of people will be found within the structure

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A Pot-Bellied Figure in Motley Dress with Antennae on His Head, from a Cave in Salt Creek Canyon, Utah

NB! · Art · Museums

A Medieval French Jug

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Hard to Argue

Black-and-white photograph of a sandal decorated with golden floral rosettes.

NB! · Archaeology · The East · Museums

Golden sandal of Tutankhamun in a black-and-white photograph

Tutankhamun's sandal. Gold, naturally

Collage: left, a polychrome statue of a winged warrior in gilded armour and helmet; right, a broken figure on the floor beside a white plinth. Caption: 400-year-old statue destroyed by touri

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News screenshot of a destroyed statue: the intact winged figure and fragments on a museum floor

Skulls of horned dinosaurs with frills and horns are mounted on a museum wall, joined by white lines. A visitor at the railing is taking a photograph.

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Horned dinosaur skulls on a museum wall with lines of relationship

Assembled thylacine skeleton with skull, ribs, long tail and limbs on a black background, with a tag and a colour scale nearby.

NB! · Science · Palaeontology · Nature

Skeleton of the thylacine, extinct since the early 20th century, and the reward for a living one

The skeleton of a thylacine, or Tasmanian wolf, extinct since the early twentieth century. There is a view that somewhere in the remote forests of Tasmania it may still be living to this day, and whoever catches a live thylacine is promised more than a million dollars

Three flint knives with faces, shell eyes and teeth, on a dark background, on a book page with a caption.

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Aztec sacrificial knives with shell eyes and teeth found at the Templo Mayor

Aztec sacrificial knives. It is curious that the form and method of manufacture of these flint and obsidian blades barely changed in over ten thousand years, the decoration alone excepted

Alexandr Radayev