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A Case in Which the Image of an Ancient Nubian Ruler Could Be Mistaken for a Figure of Christ. The petroglyph from Misida (2) in northern Sudan, near the Third Cataract of the Nile, consists of a male figure about two and a half metres tall and two goats. The
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Asia Times journalist Gabriel Honrada writes that reports of a Chinese satellite being refuelled in orbit have sharpened the US–China rivalry in space. In September the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post reported that Chinese researchers had announced the first refuelling of a navigation satellite in high orbit.
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A painting by Peter Paul Rubens plunges the viewer into the dramatic history of the Ancient East. The subject is taken from the life of Queen Artemisia, who ruled Caria in the fourth century BC. This realm lay on the territory of present-day Turkey and formed part of the
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In closed diplomatic talks, American officials are demanding explanations from China over alleged low-yield nuclear tests and the rapid expansion of its strategic infrastructure at no fewer than seven secret sites. The talks took place on the margins of multilateral meetings in Geneva, New York and Casablanca, against the
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Ai Weiwei displays 500 cast-iron helmets in Sydney. On 25 September the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei unveiled a work commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney. The installation, entitled "Mushrooms", consists of 500 cast-iron soldiers' helmets, which the artist has arranged in
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Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan Visit the National Museum of Asian Art in Washington. On 24 September Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan, wife of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, visited the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington. The First Ladies came to the museum during
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Undisturbed burials discovered at Göbekli Tepe. Göbekli Tepe lies in south-eastern Turkey. Between 9600 and 8200 BC, hunter-gatherers raised monumental structures and stone pillars here in several stages. This era belongs to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, that is, the early part of the New Stone Age, when people
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Restoration of a tenth-century church has been completed in the Georgian village of Didi Kldeisi in Tetritskaro Municipality. Tetritskaro Municipality lies in the Kvemo Kartli region in the south of Georgia. After its restoration, the church was consecrated in honour of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of
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A Fragment of the Treaty of Kadesh Has Been Found. Archaeologists working at Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite kingdom on the territory of present-day Turkey, have found a fragment of a clay tablet bearing cuneiform writing, which has turned out to be part of the Treaty of Kadesh.