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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"
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The world community, which protested loudly against the destruction of cultural heritage sites, could do nothing to stop the Taliban from blowing up a unique complex of Greco-Buddhist art
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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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The Japanese Mark the Anniversary of a Surrender in the Russo-Japanese War
The Japanese mark the anniversary of a surrender in the Russo-Japanese War. For Shintoists, all countrymen who have fallen in Japan's wars are objects of veneration
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The first grenades of the early second millennium and theories of how they got their name
HAVE A POMEGRANATE. Yesterday's grenade from the time of the Crusaders, found by a power-station worker in Israel, looks like a giant stone persimmon (https://telegram.me/captainpaleo/85). So one wonders: why "grenade", of all things? I shall explain. Grenades entered active military use
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More at http://www.livescience.com/55852-worker-discovers-bronze-age-treasures-in-israel.html
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A power-station worker in Israel amassed an impressive collection of antiquities washed up on the shore
From 1971 he collected metal objects that he came across at work. After his death, his relatives invited staff from an archaeology museum to make sense of the collection. It must be said that the assembled finds proved interesting not only from the layman's point of view. There