The Acropolis of Athens Greece :
The Sacred Rock, the Acropolis of Athens, is thought to be the symbol of the ancient Greek culture.
It is also considered to be one of the most significant ancient monuments in Europe.
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Cat on a foot of the Colossus of Constantine the Great, 312-315 AD. The complete statue in white marble would have been about 40ft high and was vandalized after the fall of Rome.
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Minoan fresco (1600 BC), depicts Minoan saffron goddess was responsible for collecting and extracting these plants, which were of great importance in Cretan culture at that time. Just behind her is winged and eagle-billed lion griffin, a mythological beast.
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Unfinished obelisk in 3500 year old granite quarry in Aswan, Egypt.
This obelisk, which is 25m long today, if it had been finished by ancient Egyptians, would be almost 42m high and more than 1160 tons in weight. In other words, it would be the greatest of all.
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Ivory Horse Sculpture from Vogelherd, Germany. Dated about 32,000-31,000 years old, now in Museum der Universität Tübingen.
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Ancient Egyptians had a sophisticated understanding of medicine and disease. They treated illnesses with a combination of herbal remedies, magic, and surgery.
Famous Ebers Papyrus, a medical text from 1550 BC, lists over 800 remedies for various ailments.
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Steadite & Faience Pectoral of the Pa-nehesi. (1550–1077 BC); New Kingdom, Egypt.
(10.6 x 10.2 x 2.6 cm.)
Egyptian Museum Cairo
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A 2000 year old; green serpentine stone mask found at the base of the pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan, Mexico.
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Ceramic Water Pipes (5th-3rd Century BC), found near Epang Palace, China. Warring States Period.
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A colossal bull's head from Persepolis during reign of Xerxes (486-465 BC).
Head is 2m high and weighs 10 tons. Persepolis was founded as a capitol city by Achaemenid dynasty, which unified Persian empire in 519 BC.
Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago
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Ajanta Caves, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.
These Buddhist rock-cut caves are believed to have been constructed around 200 BC and were used as retreat places for Buddhist monks during monsoon season. Caves were abandoned after 7th Century AD when Buddhism declined in India.
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Atlit Yam, a 9000 year old submerged Neolithic village in Levantine sea, off coast of Atlit, Israel.
Underwater excavations revealed houses, well, seven 600kg megaliths and stone semicircle containing skeletons, revealing earliest known cases of tuberculosis.
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Although the castle was almost completely destroyed in the Bem earthquake on 26 December 2003, it was later restored. In 2004, it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Bem Castle, a historical castle complex located in Bem, Iran.
History of region dates back to Achaemenid Empire, 6th Century BC. Its heyday was 7th-11th Century CE, which was at intersection of important trade routes and was known for production of silk and cotton clothing.
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The golden death mask (540 BC) of a high priestess known as the Lady of Archontiko.
His tomb was excavated in the elite part of the ancient cemetery, in the same burial cluster as the warriors of the community, in Greece.
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The face of an eight-year-old Neanderthal boy who died more than 30,000 years ago has been reconstructed by scientists using a skull found in the Teshik-Tash (Hole Stone) cave in Uzbekistan in 1938.
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Face of 8 year old Neanderthal boy who lived 30,000 years ago in present-day Uzbekistan has been reconstructed.
First 3D restoration of a fossilized Neanderthal skull. This fossil is first Neanderthal found in Asia and only complete Asian Neanderthal skull fossil to date.
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Being examined by Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences, it is now known these ancient scrolls contain valuable knowledge on various subjects.
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One of most incredible ancient libraries one can encounter is located inside Sakaya monastery in Tibet.
Sakaya library is home to 84,000 scrolls that have remained untouched for hundreds of years.
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Splendid oinochoe from Cyprus dating from between 670-600 BC.
Now on display at the Musée Barbier-Mueller in Geneva, Switzerland.
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A 12th Century CE; Byzantine decorated plate depicting Alexander the Great, dressed as a Byzantine Emperor.
Alexander sits on a throne & flies with help of mythical creatures -grypes. Scene from popular Greek medieval romance: “The deeds and conquests of Alexander the Great”
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Centuripe; an ancient town in eastern Sicily with a history that goes back to 5th Century BC. Town is spread out across ridges of several hills so town has a 'starfish' shape or if viewed from air, shape of a man with outstretched arms and legs.
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The 'Stairs of death' are a section of stone steps built by the Incas, which lead to the top of Huayna Picchu, in Peru, which is one of the steep mountains that overlooks Machu Picchu. The peak of mountain is 2693m above sea level and has Inca ruins on top.
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Rainbow and cracked fairy chimney in Cappadocia, Türkiye. A setting for one of strangest landscapes in the world, region's deep valleys and soaring rock formations are of volcanic origin, slowly eroding away to create strange "Fairy Chimneys"
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A few years ago, CT scan of a 1000-year-old Buddha statue revealed a mummified monk hidden inside.
Researchers believe statue contains body of a Buddhist master named Liuquan, member of Chinese Meditation School who died around 1100 CE.
📷 Meander Medical Centre / Drents Museum
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Apennine Colossus, a 10.67m statue made by Giambologna in 1579-80 CE, now located at Villa di Pratolino in Tuscany, Italy.
Within statue there are multiple caves, water-driven automata, a water organ and surprise jets intended to amuse and impress any visitor of park.
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"Tollund Man" a 2400-year-old marsh body and human sacrifice victim from Iron Age, found at Bjældskovdal in Denmark. His body was so well preserved that even after 2400 years, scientists could still take his fingerprints and determine what he had last eaten.
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Mnajdra Temples in Malta. Construction of 3 temples spanned over 1500 years.
Oldest is one on right, known as Eastern temple (3600-3200 BC), followed by Southern temple on left (3150-2500 BC), and temple in middle (2000 BC).
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Giza Necropolis, a large area near Giza, suburb of Cairo that has many tombs and burial sites. It is also where you can find famous Pyramids of Giza, Great Sphinx, and more. Name comes from ancient Greek word nekropolis, which means “city of the dead”
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A 1000-year-old legend is heard amid mountains that surround city of Maras, in Urubamba province in Cusco, Peru.
At an altitude of 3000m above sea level and about an hour and a half from city of Cusco we can find salt mines of Maras, whose exploitation as old as Tahuantinsuyo.
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Caryatids, Erechtheion, Acropolis of Athens, Greece.
Most famous Caryatids are 6 which support roof of porch of Erechtheion on Athenian acropolis.
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A vintage photograph (1850 CE) showing a man sitting atop one of the colossal statues at Abu Simbel, Egypt.
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of Palmeira Square. The barrow was
of exceptional size and quality, suggesting a date in the mid-Bronze Age. The Hove amber cup is one of only two found in Britain; the other was in Dorset. However, the two are not of same style of craftsmanship.
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Hove amber cup is a Bronze Age cup that was discovered in a great round barrow mound that was crudely excavated in 1856, in Hove, East Sussex, England, and is now in Hove Museum and Art Gallery.
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Bronze statuette of a bull (1st-2nd Century CE), from Syria. (Roman Period)
The bull, which has silver eyes, represents the Egyptian bull-god Apis and probably had a crescent moon inserted on his head.
Louvre Museum, Paris
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Oldest known depiction of Trojan Horse can be found on so-called Mykonos vase, 670 BC.
Neck of pithos shows descent of Greeks from wooden horse. His hooves rest upon little wheels, and in body and neck of horse are seven windows visible.
Museum of Mykonos
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Ruins of a 1st Century CE; Greek theater, located in the southwestern part of the island (Crete), near the remains of the temple of Asclepius (Aesculapius), the god of medicine.
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Egyptian Tamarisk Toy (395-641 CE)
Originally, it consisted of two horse-shaped plates, between which the rider was fixed.
Musee du Louvre
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Będzin Castle in Będzin, southern Poland. This stone castle dated 14th Century CE, and is predated by a wooden fortification that was erected
in 11th Century CE. It was an important fortification in Kingdom of Poland and later, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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It's big enough to house up to 20,000 people, along with animal and food stores. This underground city contains many sophisticated structures such as ventilation, church, barn and cellar carved from flexible volcanic ash rock called Tuff.
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