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The Terracotta Army Is Coming to Moscow

Now that is news! The director of the State Historical Museum has announced that in 2026 the museum will bring the legendary Terracotta Army to Moscow. This will be a truly large-scale cultural event. We are currently in active negotiations with our colleagues from the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Heritage

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Stonehenge, a photograph of 1944

The monument owes its present appearance to repeated interventions in its structure. In 1901 the first major restoration was carried out, with the participation of the archaeologist William Gowland, who straightened and secured one of the stones, which was in danger of falling. In the process the stone was moved

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Graffiti of a ship from the Cathedral of Saint Sophia in Constantinople

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“They say you have abandoned the idea of transporting Trajan's Column? To tell the truth, the undertaking would have cost us very dear”

«They say you have abandoned the idea of transporting Trajan's Column? To tell the truth, the undertaking would have cost us very dear» It beggars belief, but the French really did intend to carry Trajan's pillar off from Rome to Paris as a trophy during the

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3 ways to embrace ancient Egyptian fashion with an ordinary bedsheet

3 ways to embrace ancient Egyptian fashion with an ordinary bedsheet. Don't mention it

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In the Middle Ages the head of Vespasian was hollowed out from within and used as a basin for water, the drain being made by knocking a hole through the ear

From the collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Farnese collection

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Buried cities, of course, are not so straightforward

Excavations in Paris, not far from the city's oldest fountain, the Fountain of the Innocents, show what complex feats of engineering lie beneath the visible part of the city. Under every quarter there are, quite literally, unbroken foundations on piles, no smaller than the houses above ground

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The Ruins of Persepolis, Photographed around 1923

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Pictographs in Barrier Canyon, otherwise known as Horseshoe Canyon, in the desert of central Utah

Pictographs in Barrier Canyon, otherwise known as Horseshoe Canyon, in the desert of central Utah. The little figures, in some respects resembling people, in others insects, in others your common-or-garden extraterrestrials, have given their name to an entire style of rock art: similar petroglyphs are said to be

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Reading Professor Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin's diary of his journey to the Pamirs in the summer of 1914

I am reading the diary of Professor Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin about his journey to the Pamirs in the summer of 1914. He describes sailing down a mountain river on a raft made of inflated goatskins. It brought to mind the Neo-Assyrian relief of the 8th century BC from the

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A Two-Headed Snake Bracelet from One of the Most Elegant Houses in Pompeii Is Adorned with a Disc Depicting the Moon Goddess Luna/Selene, Wearing a Crescent Diadem and Surrounded by Seven Stars, Her Head Covered with a Crescent-Shaped Veil

The bracelet was so astonishing a find that the place where it was discovered came to be called the House of the Golden Bracelet. It was found on the arm of a woman who, apparently, had tried to escape the catastrophe by flight. Another fugitive was carrying caskets of gold

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While building a new line of the Rome metro, archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman laundry, a fullonica, in exceptional condition

While building a new line of the Rome metro, archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman laundry, a fullonica, in exceptional condition. The find was made not far from the Vatican, next to the recently excavated palace of the Emperor Caligula. The fullonica they have uncovered has preserved its buckets for