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Muhammad Ali training underwater in Miami, 1961
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A 3,400 year old painter's palette originating from ancient Egypt.
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The oldest known temple in the world, Göbeklitepe, Urfa.
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A Japanese house constructed without any nails over 100 years ago
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The Nemean Lion Parade burgonet of Charles V made by famed armorer Filippo Negroli in Milan c. 1541
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Arctic Circle people have been protecting their eyes from snow blindness for over 4,000 years with snow goggles (usually carving whalebone, horn, and ivory).
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Stairs carved from a solid tree trunk, 1851. Palace of the Princes of Liechtenstein in Lednice, Czech Republic.
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Ancient wooden gate of temple, Purulia, West Bengal
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View of the Pyramids during a Solar Eclipse, August 30, 1905. Photo: Gabriel Lekegian
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A traditional medieval cave house with a courtyard found in the desert of Libya.
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Detail of a bronze statue of Standing Parvati. Chola period, c.1200 CE, Tamil Nadu, India
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17th century Emerald cup made of 252 carats of pure emerald with Persian verses inscribed on it. It belonged to Emperor Jehangir of Mughal India.
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"West Wind" by the 19th-century sculptor Thomas Ridgeway Gould.
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A 3,300-year-old hairstyle on a preserved ancient Egyptian head
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The 2,300-year-old Grand Theatre of Ephesus, in Turkey, before and after excavation
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Wedding rings removed from Holocaust victims before they were executed, 1945
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A burial in Bulgaria with some of the world’s oldest known gold jewelry, 4600 BCE.
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The suitcases of people who were sent to concentration camps, Poland, Gdańsk, World War II Museum.
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A Roman helmet found in the Rhine River. Inscribed inside is the name of the soldier who wore it, L. Lucretius Celeris.
Photo by Wolfgang Sauber
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Robert Wadlow, tallest human in recorded history, with his parents and siblings, 1935
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The Making of the Perfect Martini by Guy Buffet, 2000
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The Le Passe-muraille (Passer-Through-Walls ) sculpture in the Paris catacombs
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One of the earliest photos of the Taj Mahal, India, 1850s.
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Believed to be 11,000 years old. Karahantepe, Near Göbeklitepe. Discovered in 2022.
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This miniature ecosystem has been thriving in an almost completely isolated state since 1960. It has been watered just once in that time.
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