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Made in China? The remarkable tale of Venice’s iconic winged lion

The golden funerary mask of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun (1341-1323 BC) is displayed at the Tutankhamun gallery at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, Egypt, June 11, 2025.
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King Tut gold mask to leave Cairo museum after nearly 100 years

A pot discovered at the Uaxactun archeological site in the Maya Biosphere, Peten department, Guatemala.
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Remains of Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old unearthed in Guatemala

The site has gone through many phases, going from a place to barter, to an abandoned site, to one where people were looking for gold.
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Locals move to protect Chile’s giant desert geoglyphs scarred by off-roaders

Iran is home to more than 3,000 species of lichens, with 500 to 700 varieties growing on historical monuments, Sohrabi said, noting that some at Persepolis were over 1,700 years old.
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The stone-eaters that threaten Iran’s ancient Persepolis

The triumphal arch was built in the 4th century AD to celebrate the victory of Constantine over his rival, Maxentius.
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Ancient Roman Arch of Constantine damaged by lightning

The statue is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo but not on display.
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Egypt reclaims 3,400-year-old stolen statue of King Ramses II

Must Farm Quarry, a Bronze Age site on a river channel in eastern England, is the subject of two monographs published on Mar 19 by Cambridge University.
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LIFE & CULTURE

This was village life in Britain 3,000 years ago

Remnants of an ancient channel network of hewn-rock ducts which the Israel Antiquities Authority says were in use around 2,800 years ago have baffled archaeologists who cannot ascertain their purpose given the lack of comparable biblical finds or obvious links to an ancient Jewish temple and palace that once stood nearby, in Jerusalem, August 30, 2023 REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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Archaeologists find 'mystery' ducts near biblical Jerusalem relics

epa10809067 A handout photo made available by the Italian Culture Ministry on 20 August 2023 shows a cot with poor mattress, some sideboards that kept some work tools and an amphora at a room assigned to the slaves found in Civita Giuliana, suburb of the ancient city of Pompeii, Italy. Pompeii is not only the mirror of the magnificence with which the rich traders who lived there surrounded themselves, the excavations and the new casts made on the remains found also shed light on the situation of precariousness and subordination experienced by those who made possible the life full of comforts of the rich landowners. EPA-EFE/ITALIAN CULTURE MINISTRY / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
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New find throws light on life of slaves in Rome's Pompeii

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