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Located in the desert of Faiyum, in Egypt, is a small unfinished and uninscribed temple known locally as Qasr el-Sagha. The date of the temple is a source of debate among scholars, but its plan suggests that the structure was built no later than the Middle Kingdom

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Located in the desert of Faiyum, in Egypt, is a small unfinished and uninscribed temple known locally as Qasr el-Sagha. The date of the temple is a source of debate among scholars, but its plan suggests that the structure was built no later than the Middle Kingdom

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Fatimid carved rock crystal ewer, specifically known as the Fermo Ewer. The Rock crystal was Carved in the late 10th or early 11th century Egypt and is housed in the Diocesan museum of Fermo located in Italy.

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Fatimid carved rock crystal ewer, specifically known as the Fermo Ewer. The Rock crystal was Carved in the late 10th or early 11th century Egypt and is housed in the Diocesan museum of Fermo located in Italy.

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Located at the granite quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan, not far from the famous unfinished obelisk, another huge piece of rock was even closer to being freed

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Located at the granite quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan, not far from the famous unfinished obelisk, another huge piece of rock was even closer to being freed

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An old picture of the ancient Egyptian rock cut temple of Gerf Hussein, that was dedicated to pharaoh Ramesses II and built by Setau in 1241-1216 BCE. Most of the temple is now submerged beneath the waters of the Nile after the building of the Aswan dam project in the 1960s

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An old picture of the ancient Egyptian rock cut temple of Gerf Hussein, that was dedicated to pharaoh Ramesses II and built by Setau in 1241-1216 BCE. Most of the temple is now submerged beneath the waters of the Nile after the building of the Aswan dam project in the 1960s

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The Mahishasuramardhini Mandapa is a rock-cut cave temple located on a hill in Mamallapuram, India. It was made in the the late 7th century CE by the Pallava dynasty, and is now part of the Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram, a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1984

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The Mahishasuramardhini Mandapa is a rock-cut cave temple located on a hill in Mamallapuram, India. It was made in the the late 7th century CE by the Pallava dynasty, and is now part of the Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram, a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1984

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Tazza Farnese, a cameo bowl made of four-layered sardonyx agate. The origin of the piece is unknown. However, the consensus among scholars, based on the blending of Egyptian and Greek or Roman iconography in its carvings, is that it was created in Alexandria between 300 and 20 BC...

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Tazza Farnese, a cameo bowl made of four-layered sardonyx agate. The origin of the piece is unknown. However, the consensus among scholars, based on the blending of Egyptian and Greek or Roman iconography in its carvings, is that it was created in Alexandria between 300 and 20 BC...

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The Ghagha-Shahr is a citadel complex dated to the Sassanid period , and located on the southern promontory of the eastern slope of Mount Khajeh, a flat-topped black basalt hill rising up as an island in the middle of Lake Hamun in Iran

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The Ghagha-Shahr is a citadel complex dated to the Sassanid period , and located on the southern promontory of the eastern slope of Mount Khajeh, a flat-topped black basalt hill rising up as an island in the middle of Lake Hamun in Iran

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Elizabeth Tower, better known by the name of its biggest bell, Big Ben, the Parliament on the left and Westminster Bridge on the right. Designed in neo-Gothic style, when finished in 1859, its clock was the largest and most accurate four-faced striking and chiming clock in the world...

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Elizabeth Tower, better known by the name of its biggest bell, Big Ben, the Parliament on the left and Westminster Bridge on the right. Designed in neo-Gothic style, when finished in 1859, its clock was the largest and most accurate four-faced striking and chiming clock in the world...

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Among the treasures discovered in King Tut’s tomb is an elaborate pectoral with a central scarab carved from a canary-yellow material called Libyan Desert glass. Found in the sand dunes of Egypt’s western desert, the glass was formed about 29 million years ago by a meteorite strike

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Among the treasures discovered in King Tut’s tomb is an elaborate pectoral with a central scarab carved from a canary-yellow material called Libyan Desert glass. Found in the sand dunes of Egypt’s western desert, the glass was formed about 29 million years ago by a meteorite strike

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Bronze statue of a young man. The figure shown is in the middle of a prayer - hence its name "Praying Boy". The object was found in Rhodes, and is dated to the 3rd century BCE.

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Bronze statue of a young man. The figure shown is in the middle of a prayer - hence its name "Praying Boy". The object was found in Rhodes, and is dated to the 3rd century BCE.

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Qasr Bashir in Jordan is the well-preserved ruin of a Roman fort built during the reign of Diocletian . During this time, the Romans constructed smaller but better fortified strongholds than before.

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Qasr Bashir in Jordan is the well-preserved ruin of a Roman fort built during the reign of Diocletian . During this time, the Romans constructed smaller but better fortified strongholds than before.

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