Which character got you into archeology

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Syrian archaeologist Khaled Al Asaad who devoted his life to the excavation and restoration of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He was beheaded by ISIS after refusing to disclose the location of ancient artifacts, despite a month of torture. He died a hero of heritage protection.

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Perhaps one of the most famous photographs in Archaeology

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1974 photograph showing the true colors of the freshly unearthed Terracotta Warriors, before rapid deterioration due to environmental exposures

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1,500-year-old Ceramic Maya Figurine with Removable Helmet, from El Peru-Waka', Peten, Guatemala

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The cultural as well as human cost of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake; Gaziantep Castle, Turkey, at the start of this month vs. today

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Unbelievable! Two 15,000-year-old bison sculptures have been discovered in a remote French cave, perfectly preserved and offering a glimpse into our ancient ancestors' artistic traditions.

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Oldest olive oil - The nearly 2,000 year old bottle filled with solidified olive oil from Pompeii (and carbonized bread on the left). Roman, 79 AD

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We could safely call it Dinosaur Mummy

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An aerial view of the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza

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Ancient Roman ruins in Tunisia

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Runestone rediscovered two days ago in Ystad, Sweden

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Picked this up at a local flea market. Was wondering about potential history and age?

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Gobekli tepe is the oldest archaeological site in the world located in Turkey. This construction let you remind the high level artistic power of stone age people around 11000 years ago.

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The Pre Columbian stone sphere in the University of Costa Rica has a difference of only three millimeters with that of a perfect synthetic sphere.

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Fascinating

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A Nazca skull with long braids Hair still attached to its own skull, measures 2800 mm (2.80m.) in length, possibly belonged to a priestess of approximately 50 years and whose age is 2,200 years (200 BC).⁣

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Thought this belonged here, never heard of this garment ever before

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King Tutankhamun's bed has a folding feature for easy carrying with him during wars.

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View into the temple of Dendera, Egypt.

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Getting to the core issues

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Mexico’s most beloved millionth: Monumental Sculpture of “La Coatlicue” Mother Goddess.

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Makes you wonder how many idols were actually the ancient equivalent of a lawn gnome

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Easter Island's monumental stone heads are well-known, but there's more to the story: all along, the sculptures have secretly had torsos, buried beneath the earth. Archaeologists have documented 887 of the massive statues, known as Moai, but there may be up as many as 1,000 of them on the island.

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Newspaper Rock in Canyonland National Park, Utah

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Tollund Man, a Dane who died before Jesus Christ was born. His body was discovered in 1950, and had been well preserved due to it being protected by several layers of peat.

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Mummy of Thuya. She was the mother of Queen Tiya, grandmother of Akhenaten, and Great grandmother of Tutankhamun. about 3400 years ago She died in hir mid-50s

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Are there any older paintings depicting an insect than this?

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What did I find? In a field in central Slovenia?

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This priceless piece of Caligula's mosaic floor was unknowingly used for 50 years as a coffee table in a NYC apartment.

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Wheel ruts left by 2000-year-old Roman traffic in Pompeii.

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3,000 year old Egyptian Bracelet from the Cairo Museum

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“Penacho de Moctezuma”, Mexico’s most claimed masterpiece

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The Oseberg Ship. A 9th Century Viking Ship. It was discovered in 1880, almost perfectly preserved in a burial mound in Norway.

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Any consensus on whether this is a fossil or human artifact?

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Pre Columbian Stone Sphere from Costa Rica. 800-1500 A.D.

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Terracotta dice from the Indus valley, India, 2500 - 1000 BC

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Classic Inca burial in crouched sitting position, with the dead expectantly facing the rising sun, a symbol of rebirth.

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This 4600 year old Egyptian statue

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Every Roman settlement (that ever existed, with borders from 117AD)

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The Pergamon Altar(Ancient Greek)

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The Stair of Death in Peru, built by the Inca civilization 600 years ago, to climb to the top of Mount Huayna Picchu with a height of more than 8,850 feet, in order to build temples and terraces.

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A Roman bathhouse still in use after 2,000 years in Khenchela, Algeria

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Siberian Princess shows off her 2500 year old tattoos The Siberian Ice Maiden, also known as the Princess of Ukok, is a mummy of a woman from the 5th century BC

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Scythian Golden Pectoral, ca. 500 B.C.

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10,000 year-old giraffe engravings in the Sahara Desert

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Four scripts : Greek, Nabataean, Safaitic-Hismaic, and Thamudic D. In Saudi Arabia

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Five interlocked skeletons discovered in the UAE

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The pagodas of New Bagan, Myanmar.

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Portrait of a ruler

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Why are there UFOs in old art works?

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Any thoughts on this Vinca Terra cotta animal? 4000-5000 BC

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'Urfa man'

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It was in the year 1986 a group of archaeologists discovered a claw of a bird while digging down in a cave in New Zealand. The flesh and muscles are still attached to it. Later, the archaeologist confirmed that it is a foot of extinct wingless bird moa which disappeared from Earth 2000 years before.

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findings from the Middle Ages. Kievan Rus

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Does it have meaning?

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Human-headed Winged Bull ,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago ,USA

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11,000-Year-Old Carving of Man Holding His Penis, Surrounded by Leopards, Is Oldest-Known Depiction of a Narrative Scene

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Every Roman fort and tower (with borders from 117 AD)

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The oak coffin and grave goods from the burial of a Nordic teen aged 16-18 named Egtved Girl. The tomb is accurately dated to the summer of 1370 BC due to the amazing preservation of the oak coffin and it's rings. The racy outfit was likely used in sun worship dancing as depicted on period statues.

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Who else likes the librarian movies

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DNA analysis has identified this regal beauty as Tiye, Amenhotep III’s wife and Tutankhamun’s grandmother. She was embalmed with her left arm bent across her chest, interpreted as a queen’s burial pose. Her hair remains intact thanks to Egypt’s arid climate

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Tailor riding a goat, 1740, Meissen, Germany, Modeled by Johann Joachim Kandler. On display at Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, India.

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Saw this in a museum and it confused me. It's from the Amana period and unfinished with no names in the cartoushes. It looks like it shows two Pharaos? Both wear royal crowns, one appears to be female, but maybe that's just Akhenaten being depicted very feminine? Anyone know more?

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Montezuma Castle in Prescott, AZ.

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This hollow oak tree in Sherwood Forest is believed to be around 1000 years old and local legend says Robin Hood once hid inside it. It was also voted tree of the year in England.

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The ceramics collection of the University of Minnesota is currently in the process of transferring the old accession and catalogue books into “digitized catalogue”

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new finding in SanxingDui, archeologists use the 3-D scanning technology and achieve this combination.

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bebe shot glass?

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Question about arrowheads

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Can someone explain this picture? some peoples say that maya saw the moon split in half and refered to it as a split headed rabbit

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Fossils of a turtle the size of a car have been unearthed in South America. Carlos for scale.

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While debating roman dodecahedrons: ¿spaghett?

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Whats the meaning of this symbol on one or the sarcophaguses held at The Met in NYC

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Netflix be like

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Are we looking at taurus next to orion, canis minor and major? The standing man is symbol of civilization? Near tarus head we can see a circular object, a place from where we see pleyades falling from? It is dated also near the end of Younger Dryas?

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The 19th Century Lyre Made From a Human Skull.

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The Santa Cristina well, is an ancient place of worship of Nuragic civilization located in Sardinia. A study reveals the incredible knowledge of Sardinian populations thousands of years ago.(Source in comments).

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2000 year old Peruvian skull: Discuss

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Plague Doctor Mask from 16th Century.

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Someone gave me this rock (see comment)

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The Peaceful Face of the 2400yr old Tollund Man. Learn more about him in the comments.⠀

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restoration. 2 world war(everything is deactivated. the photo shows the layout)

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Is this from India or Myanmar?

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Script Groups Throughout History

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2 thousand years Toilet from the Roman era in Algeria.

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Newspaper Rock, a petroglyph site in Utah with drawings claiming a 2,000 year history, depicts several instances of figures on horseback. Horses went extinct in the Americas 10,000 years ago. Was this site continually maintained by the peoples who began it to the point of horses' return?

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Another Pendant from Costa Rica.

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Accurate rendition of the Maya city of Tikal, Guatemala

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51,000 year-old carved bone is one of the world’s oldest works of art, researchers say.

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This is in southwest Crete. The tomb is in a line with others that are of the traditional rectangular box carved into rock type. Has anyone seen one like it, and does anyone have an idea why it is open on both ends?

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Dug this up in backyard. Any idea if it's a replica or?

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No info on this. Why????? In peru

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Does this have any meaning or is it a random design? Anybody know? It’s pretty old

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Near the village of Fonni (Sardinia), there is a large Nuragic sanctuary: the sanctuary of Gremanu. This sanctuary, when viewed from above, has a familiar shape. (The article is the second part of an article, more information and sources in comments).

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Original painting by me “Writers and Rivals, an excerpt” 2022

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The western staircase leading to the roof of the Temple of the Goddess Hathor, Egypt. 2300 years old.

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ancient painting?

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Hmmm interesting

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From the Maya: A jadeite funerary mask. [2599x2896] [OC]

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23 Lost and Hidden Treasures from Around the World

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Roman temple complex in Baalbeck, Lebanon

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Anybody know specifying name for this?

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A menorah carved on the architrave of a synagogue in the Roman port-city of Ostia, Italy, circa 4th century CE. The relief was gilded, with jewels incised along the branches. A shofar (ram's horn) and an etrog (fruit used in Sukkot holiday prayers) decorate the sides, among more faded symbols. [OC]

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Is he plowing a farm or...?

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Could this stone be a stone age tool?

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Pulled this from the ground. Info in comments

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Is anyone able to analyze this ancient egyptian painting/grave painting 1600 B.C on the grave of a man called Nakht.

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Any info on this?

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Would the differing colors be indicative of something in this farm field?

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Before & After: Temple of Abu Simbel, Egypt.

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Around Kyoto are seven temples all housing the floorboards of Momoyama Castle, reused as ceiling. Following a siege 380 samurai committed ritual suicide in the keep. Their blood soaked so deeply into the wood that footprints, handprints, puddles, and even full outlines of bodies can be seen.

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The Siberian unicorn Reconstruction of an Elasmotherium, an extinct species of rhino that lived in the Eurasian area in the Late Pliocene and Pleistocene eras. This animal could have been the basis for the unicorn myth that has persisted for thousands of years.

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Ancient Egyptian gold pendant amulet in the shape of the Nile catfish, with green glazed faience, chalcedony, turquoise, carnelian, lapis lazuli and black stone inlays. 1985-1773 BC. The Walters Art Museum.

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2000 year old body, preserved in a bog

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Pedestrian crossing in Pompei, AD 79

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Aztec heaven

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Is this man made?

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Grave goods of a female (silver, brass, iron; 3rd century), Lithuania, Northern Europe

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Zoroastrian Symbol resemble very close to the winged sun symbol of ancient Egypt. Is there a cultural continuity or its just coincidence?

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Ax from Viking era, before and after conservation 10th–11th century [566x674]

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Agartha

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Real Roman stones ?

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The Roman Emperors (Photo & Work: Et Tu Antiquities)

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Denisovans bracelet drill hole next to ancient Egyptian drill hole in granite. Similar techniques? Or just a coincidence?

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well preserved fort on the Isle of Man

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Lion of the Aslantepe Gate, Limestone, Malatya, 1200-700 BC., Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.

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5000 year old Hypogeum in Malta.

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Sphinx Figure composed with head of a human torso of a lion and a bird head tail. There are bird feathers on its chest. Sakcagozu Orthostats(120

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Anyone do recognize this symbol and would explain me the meaning ? (On a pillar of Alcobaca church , Portugal)

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Merovingian brooch found in Marilles, Belgium, dated around 560-610AD. More info in comments! [OC][1890 x 2072]

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Battle of Alexander and Darius. Mosaic from#Pompeii (House of the Faun, VI 12, 2, exedra). Date: 125—120 B.C. Provenance: #Naples, National Archaeological Museum (Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli)

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Possible artefact used in village house . Loc: Kaleyolu-Turkey

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Double grave from 5th-6th c. BC, Iron age (Celtic???) necropolis at Volarsko polje, near Novi Sad, Backa, northern Serbia. Two warriors are buried in this grave, head to foot, one with head turned towards the south, the other with head turned towards the north.

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Theatre, Miletus Ancient City.

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Celtic in prehistoric China?

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1 Wooden architectural elements from a mosque, 17th-20th century, Swat-region, Pakistan, pine, mulberry and cedar

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MIL found arrowhead in yard. She lives 30 minutes north of San Antonio. Any information would be appreciated. Would love to know where it came from or if it’s even authentic.

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Kubaba, Mother Goddess of Hittites, Kargamıs Ancient City, 9th Century BC, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. [OC]

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Trajan Temple, Pergamon Ancient City.

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