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The Delikkemer Aqueduct, Which Supplied the Lycian City of Patara with Water

The Delikkemer Aqueduct, built some 2,000 years ago, is a pipe laid along the top of a stone wall up to 12 metres high. The pipe is formed within limestone blocks, each with a hole hollowed out through the middle. The aqueduct supplied the Lycian city of Patara with

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Queen Elizabeth II is among the few monarchs in whose veins runs the blood of the Prophet Muhammad

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From the makers of “I Haven’t Had My Fill of Fun Yet” and “I’m Perfectly Fine on My Own”

Jemal Kukhalashvili, Tbilisi Museum of Fine Arts

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Cult statue of Artemis of Ephesus and the fate of the temple, one of the Seven Wonders

This is what the cult statue from the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, looks like. It is the very temple that was burnt down by Herostratus in 356 BC, reputedly on the day of the birth of Alexander the Great. Alexander of

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Today at Mass in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, the Georgian Patriarchal Choir of His Holiness Ilia II sings

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The Italian Lorenza D'Alessandro, art historian and curator, during the restoration of the tomb of Nefertari, Queen of Egypt, in Luxor

The Italian Lorenza D'Alessandro, art historian and curator, during the restoration of the tomb of Nefertari, Queen of Egypt, in Luxor. So reincarnation does exist after all?

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Three hundred crocodile mummies found near the Kom Ombo temple in Aswan province

Beauty and spa treatments may turn you into a goddess, but there is no guarantee that it will not be the deity Sobek, who appears in the guise of a crocodile. The proof: specimens from among the three hundred crocodile mummies discovered in the vicinity of the temple of Kom

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The Ethiopian Delegation at the Coronation of Edward VII in 1902

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Reliefs of the Halicarnassus Mausoleum, 4th century BC, by four Greek masters, Scopas, Timotheus, Bryaxis and Leochares, depicting the war of the Greeks and the Amazons

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Mehmet Ali Agca's 1981 assassination attempt on John Paul II in Saint Peter's Square

On 13 May 1981, as the Pope's motorcade moved across St Peter's Square and John Paul II greeted the pilgrims, six shots rang out. A Turkish extremist standing in one of the front rows wounded the Pope in the abdomen and the hand: by a miracle,

Old map of Eurasia with the route of the Tsarevich's journey to the East in 1890–1891 outlined in red.

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The Route of Tsarevich Nicholas through Europe, Asia and Africa in 1890–1891 on a Map

The route of Tsesarevich Nicholas on his journey to the East in 1890-1891, through Europe, Asia and Africa, covering 51,000 versts. During this journey the heir laid the foundation for work on the construction of the Siberian railway

Bag-shaped object with an arched handle, its front carved in relief with eyes and eight-pointed rosettes.

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Decorated Mesopotamian weight of 2600 BC and proposed uses for the object

DIOR MINI handbag, Ancient Mesopotamia, 2600 BC. Regarded as a decorated weight, but it may quite as well have served as a part of a loom, for religious purposes, as part of a dowry or as a gift