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A Roman Road was discovered while excavating for a new Mcdonald's in Marino, Italy. They incorporated a glass floor in the restaurant after excavations were complete.
Photo by Mauro Consilvo
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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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Silver skull pocket-watch made by the Genevan watchmaker Isaac Penard c.1650, Met
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View of the Pyramids during a Solar Eclipse, August 30, 1905. Photo: Gabriel Lekegian
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Sir Hiram Maxim testing his invention, the machine gun, 1897
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Sailors saluting a war veteran, Leningrad 1989
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Wedding rings removed from Holocaust victims before they were executed, 1945
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The Travelers, also known as Les Voyageurs, are bronze surrealist sculptures by the French artist Bruno Catalano. The central part of each statue is missing. The artist has said that the statues are meant to represent those who leave their home country.
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A statue of Yasuke, an African slave, who arrived in Japan in 1579 and may have been the first black Samurai. bit.ly/3yoqoIo
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The Angel of Death, sculpture of a funeral gondola, Venice. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1951
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Johnny Cash before going on stage at Folsom Prison, 1968
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Mourning clothes worn by count Magnus Brahe at the funeral of king Karl XIV Johan of Sweden in 1844.
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A young female welder in Connecticut, c. 1943. Photo by Bernard Hoffman
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"Girls in the Windows" taken by Ormond Gigli in 1960 in NYC. The building was knocked down the next day.
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The sarcophagus in the burial chamber of Tutankhamun, 1923. Photo by Harry Burton
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Closeup of the uraeus on the body of King Tutankhamun’s first inner coffin New Kingdom 18th Dynasty Egypt 1332-1323 BCE
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Believed to be 11,000 years old. Karahantepe, Near Göbeklitepe. Discovered in 2022.
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U.S. Air Force bombers fly over Ploiești, Romania, following a raid on August 1, 1943. Of the 16 cameramen accompanying this mission, the one who took this photo was the only one to survive
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Anne Frank's father Otto visits the attic where they hid from the Germans in WW2. He stands alone as he is the only member of his family to have survived the Holocaust, 1960.
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Intricate floor mosaic in the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Firenzi, Italy.
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A mountain of bison skulls before being used in fertilizer in 1870. Bison were hunted to the brink of extinction in the 19th century.
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Egyptian men watch as the Graf Zeppelin floats over the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, while atop the Great Pyramid of Khufu. 1931.
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Bronze rhinoceros inlaid with moire of gold and silver.
Western Han Dynasty, 206 BC-8 AD
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