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Stonehenge, UK
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Florencia
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Thüringen, Alemania
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The Chauvet cave, France, the art of prehistory. Under the ground of the Ardèche region, an invaluable treasure is hidden for its antiquity, its conservation and the pictorial quality of the representations; one of the oldest and most splendid examples of Arieñaciense parietal art, dating approx. between 40,000 and 30,000 B.C.n
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The guardians of the pharaoh. They are represented standing, with the left leg. forward (typical masculine walking posture), holding a papyrus staff with the left hand and a mace with the right.
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Golden Throne of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, a masterpiece of Egyptian art. The chair was built by assembling various pieces of wood, covered with gold, semi-precious stones and colored glass. Its preservation is excellent. Discovered in his tomb today in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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The Chauvet cave, France, the art of prehistory. Under the ground of the Ardèche region, an invaluable treasure is hidden for its antiquity, its conservation and the pictorial quality of the representations; one of the oldest and most splendid examples of Arieñaciense parietal art, dating approx. between 40,000 and 30,000 B.C.n
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Basalt coffin of Sisobek minister of the Pharaoh Uahibra Psametik or Psamético I (reigned between 664 and 610 BC) was the founder and first pharaoh of the XXVI dynasty, also called the Saite dynasty at the beginning of the so-called Late Period of Egypt.
British Museum, London
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The temple of Khnum #Egypt was dedicated to this god of the annual floods of the Nile, as well as the deities Neith and Heka.
Its construction was started during the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor (221-204 BC), being expanded during the Roman imperial era, mainly during the era of Emperor Claudius
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The Cantalloc Aqueducts are a work of hydraulic engineering built in the middle of the desert by the ancient Nazca culture (200-700 AD). They are located 4 km. north of Nazca, Peru.
Of the 46 underground aqueducts found, 32 are still in operation today.
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The Rakotzbrücke Bridge or Devil's Bridge is hidden in the middle of the leafy Kromlauer Park, Germany. Its builder was Friedrich Hermann Rotschke and it dates back to 1860. Curious and beautiful the effect generated by its refraction in the water.
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