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ArchaeoHistories
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History is an unending dialogue between present and the past, that's why few pages of history give more insight than all the metaphysical volumes. (99)
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    Aug 14, 2022
    Recent droughts in Europe once again made visible the "Hunger Stones" in some Czech and German rivers. These stones were used to mark desperately low river levels that would forecast famines. This one, in Elbe river, is from 1616 and says: "If you see me, cry" #archaeohistories
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    Jun 16, 2022
    Upside-down fig tree in Bacoli, Italy. "No one is quite sure how the tree ended up there or how it survived, but year after year it continues to grow downwards and bear figs." #archaeohistories
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    May 7, 2022
    Oldest house in France. It's found in Aveyron, built in 13th century and belonged to a Jeanne. Ground floor is a little smaller than upstairs because in those times you only paid taxes on occupied land, so everyone built like this. #archaeohistories
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    Aug 14, 2022
    This oak door featured in Westminster Abbey is Britain’s oldest and only Anglo-Saxon Door. The door has been standing for over 950 years, dating back to the reign of Edward the Confessor during the 1050s. The door was made from a single oak from Eastern England in medevial times.
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    May 10, 2022
    Staircase in the Chambord Castle in France. Designed by the Great legend of high Renaissance Leonardo Da Vinci in 1516. #archaeohistories
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    May 11, 2022
    The submerged temple of Cleopatra in Alexandria, Egypt. #archaeohistories
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    Nov 7, 2022
    In medieval Catalonia (Spain), bankers who became bankrupt, were publicly disgraced by town authorities, and given nothing but bread _ water to eat until creditors were paid off. After a year, if bankers failed to paid, they would be beheaded & their property sold off to pay them
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    Apr 16, 2022
    The interior of the Orient Express, the long distance passenger train service was created in 1883. #archaeohistories
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    Apr 20, 2022
    The top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt. #archaeohistories
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    Jun 21, 2022
    A gorgeous image from the sunken city of Heracleion near the coast of Alexandria in Egypt. #archaeohistories
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    Jun 25, 2022
    The discovery of an ancient Mayan statue deep in the jungles of Honduras in 1885. #archaeohistories
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    May 11, 2022
    The 21st Century version of a 'Message in a Bottle'. 😄 #archaeohistories
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    May 16, 2022
    3D reconstruction of the position of the "Lovers of Valdaro", two fossilized skeletons (a man and a woman) dating back to 6000 years ago, discovered by archaeologists at a Neolithic tomb in S.Giorgio near Mantova, Italy, in 2007.⁣ #archaeohistories
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    Jun 14, 2022
    A 2000 year old public bathhouse from the Roman period is still used by locals in the town of Khenchela, Algeria. #archaeohistories