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Boy standing in front of fallen statue of Lenin, Ethiopia, 1991
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Garfield phones have been washing on the shore of the Finistère coasts of France for almost four decades. There's a shipping container wedged in the rocks that has been slowly releasing them all these years. Photo by Fred Tanneau. Source: bit.ly/3iH3K9u
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Public urinal, Paris, 1875. Structures like this could be found on the streets of Paris in the late 19th century.
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A 3,000-year-old Assyrian relief of a soldier diving under a river using an inflatable goatskin bag.
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Monet with a pigeon on his head, and his wife Alice, Venice, 1908.
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3300-year-old wool trousers discovered in the vast Yanghai cemetery near Turfan, northwestern China.
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The Siberian Ice Maiden, or the Princess of Ukok, is a female mummy with tattoos from the 5th century BC. Republic of Altai, Russia.
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What the earliest modern humans likely looked like 160,000 years ago.
Courtesy of Moesgaard Museum, Denmark
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The Kremos, a Swiss family of acrobats. Paris, 1896.
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A 5,000-year-old wooden boat used by the pharaohs discovered by French archaelogists
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Two girls gallop full speed on sheep in Cornwall, England 1969. Photo by John Drysdale.
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This 9000-year-old stone mask is the oldest mask in the world, and was found in the Judean Desert in Israel
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Detail of a bronze statue of Standing Parvati. Chola period, c.1200 CE, Tamil Nadu, India
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"Tree of Life" mosaic from Hisham's Palace, built in the 8th century. CE in Jericho by the Umayyad Caliphate.
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The 2000-year-old tree of Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico. It has the largest trunk diameter in the world. Its circumference is close to 60m.
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Johnny Cash before going on stage at Folsom Prison, 1968
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A 2000-year-old giant cat geoglyph found amid Peru's famous Nazca Lines.
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Lithops are South African plants that have evolved to look like stones.
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Amazing detail on this marble sculpture. The Veiled Truth by Antonio Corradini, 1752.
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A 1400-year-old Ginkgo tree found within the walls of the Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple, in the Zhongnan Mountains region of China. Photo by Han Fei
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A Samurai helmet made and signed by Myochin Nobuie, one of Japan's most famous metalsmiths. 1525.
Isreal museum, Jerusalem, Isreal. © The Archaeologist
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