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The Great Ramesses as a Child under the Protection of the God Horus

Stone relief with Egyptian hieroglyphs, including shapes that resemble flying machines.

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Theory of accidental hieroglyph overlay and the helicopters in Egyptian tombs

Helicopters in Egyptian tombs. There is a view that all manner of flying machines and futuristic vehicles in Egyptian wall paintings are the result of the chance overlaying of different hieroglyphs

Archaeology · Architecture · Geography · Observations

Architecture and geography of Maya cities and the projection of the Milky Way onto the earth

Incidentally, the architecture and geography of all the Maya cities correspond to the exact projection of the celestial rope, the Milky Way, onto the earth. That is where the straight line along which the Maya settlements are strung comes from.

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Terracotta Zodiac Figurines, First Millennium, China

Silver horn-shaped vessel with gilded details, its lower part shaped like a seated horned creature.

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Iranian silver wine cup with a griffin, holding 1.5 litres, is over 2,500 years old

An Iranian silver wine cup with a griffin holds 1.5 litres of wine. Its age: more than 2,500 years

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In Kabardino-Balkaria archaeologists have found skulls of "long-headed" people https://rg.ru/2016/09/05/reg-skfo/v-kbr-arheologi-nashli-cherepa-dlinnogolovyh-liudej.html

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A Piece of Homework from Mesopotamia, Three and a Half Thousand Years Old

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A Ring with a Dial from a Chinese Tomb, Four Hundred Years Old

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In the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan, statues of the Buddha, presumably 55 m, 37 m, 13 m, 5 m and 2 m in height, were carved into the cliffs

In the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan, statues of the Buddha, presumably 55 m, 37 m, 13 m, 5 m and 2 m in height, were carved into the cliffs. All of them were destroyed by the Taliban "as they were objects of worship, which Islam forbids"

Black-and-white photograph of a group of people standing at the foot of a huge Buddha statue carved into a rock niche.

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Buddha statues in Afghanistan, erected in the 6th century and blown up by the Taliban in 2000

1931, archaeologists beside a statue of the Buddha in the Afghan desert. The Buddhas of Bamiyan were raised in the 6th century. The largest of them, at 55 metres, was the tallest statue in the world. In 2000 the statues were blown up by the Taliban

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An expedition of the Institute for the History of Material Culture (IIMK) of the Russian Academy of Sciences has discovered an agricultural settlement of the Bosporan Kingdom, dated to about the 4th century BC, on the site of the road being built to the b

The research has shown that one of the inhabitants of the ancient village was an official responsible for keeping account of agricultural produce. "The archaeological excavations covered an area of almost 70,000 square metres, which made it possible to study in detail substantial parts of ancient residential, farming

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