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  • A plastic drinks bottle hangs from a food kiosk opposite ancient Roman archaeology in the Italian capital, on 3rd November 1999, in Rome, Italy.
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  • A tourist uses a selfie-stick to photograph a frieze in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy. The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, MANN, formerly Real Museo Borbonico Bourbons Royal Museum is considered the most important Italian archaeological museum and one of the most important in the world for classical, and particularly ancient Roman, archaeology. Its collection includes works of the highest quality produced in Greek, Roman and Renaissance times and especially Roman artifacts from nearby Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum.
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  • The scale replica of Palmyras 2,000 year-old Arch of Triumph in Londons Trafalgar Square on 20th April 2016. The 1,800-year-old arch was destroyed by Islamic State militants in October 2015 and the 6-metre 20ft model, made in Italy from Egyptian marble, is intended as an act of defiance: to show that restoration of the ancient site is possible if the will is there. Reconstructed by the Institute of Digital Archaeology IDA using 3D technology, it will travel to cities around the world after leaving London. .
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  • A detail of ancient archaeology in the British Museum: An Assyrian formal scene, of about 865-860 BC from the ancient city of Nimrud. In one scene the king appears as conqueror with bow and arrows, flanked by guman attendants but here, we see a detail of a hand holding a purse-like bag, the arm adorned with jewellery on the wrist. Neo-Aramaic writing can be seen at the bottom of this scene depicting royal life. Assyrian kings competed to outdo each other with carved reliefs on interior walls. This tradition began with King Ashurnasirpal II (reigned 883-859BC) at Nimrud. Nimrud is the later Arab name for the ancient Assyrian city originally known as Kalhu, located 30 kilometres (20 mi) south of the city of Mosul, and 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of the village of Selamiyah in the Nineveh plains in northern Mesopotamia.
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  • A detail of ancient archaeology in the British Museum: An Assyrian Court scene, of about 865-86-BC from the ancient city of Nimrud. King Ashurnasirpal is enthroned between attendants with the group flanked by a pair of winged protective spirits. Neo-Aramaic writing can be seen at the bottom of this scene depicting the royal ceremony. Assyrian kings competed to outdo each other with carved reliefs on interior walls. This tradition began with King Ashurnasirpal II (reigned 883-859BC) at Nimrud. Nimrud is the later Arab name for the ancient Assyrian city originally known as Kalhu, located 30 kilometres (20 mi) south of the city of Mosul, and 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of the village of Selamiyah in the Nineveh plains in northern Mesopotamia.
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  • A detail of ancient archaeology in the British Museum: An Assyrian Court scene, of about 865-86-BC from the ancient city of Nimrud. King Ashurnasirpal is enthroned between attendants with the group flanked by a pair of winged protective spirits. Neo-Aramaic writing can be seen at the bottom of this scene depicting the royal ceremony. Assyrian kings competed to outdo each other with carved reliefs on interior walls. This tradition began with King Ashurnasirpal II (reigned 883-859BC) at Nimrud. Nimrud is the later Arab name for the ancient Assyrian city originally known as Kalhu, located 30 kilometres (20 mi) south of the city of Mosul, and 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of the village of Selamiyah in the Nineveh plains in northern Mesopotamia.
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  • A woman takes a picture of a priapic satyr in the Secret Museum in Naples, Italy. The Gabinetto Segreto of Naples is the collection of erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum, held in separate galleries in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy, the former Museo Borbonico.
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  • Statues at the Museo archeologico regionale Paolo Orsi in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy<br />
is one of the principal archaeological museums of Europe. In 1780 the Bishop Alagona inaugurated the Museo del Seminario which became the Museo Civico near the archbishops house in 1808. The new museum space, designed by the architect Franco Minissi was inaugurated in 1988.
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  • Statues at the Museo archeologico regionale Paolo Orsi in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy<br />
is one of the principal archaeological museums of Europe. In 1780 the Bishop Alagona inaugurated the Museo del Seminario which became the Museo Civico near the archbishops house in 1808. The new museum space, designed by the architect Franco Minissi was inaugurated in 1988.
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  • Having just unearthed more bodies from layers of volcanic ash and pumice, an archaeologist's assistant pauses for a cigarette, kneeling beside a victim of the AD79 eruption of Mount Versuvius over the ancient Roman town of Pompeii. Buried beneath huge amounts of toxic material this person was suffocated and crushed from falling debris. Preserved in a shell of volcanic material it is to be removed from this site on top of a villa roof where, it is calculated, this citizen was one of the last to die, having climbed 4 metres above ground level to await its fate. The Italian man ears a red t-shirt and holds a pick that has scraped and brushed away the soil to reveal the human form which also shows another body beneath. Others litter the rooftop too proving that many survivors of the first eruption perished after the second many hours later.
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  • Night shot overview of the Roman Forum, Rome, Italy.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Pan and the goat in Roman times. Marble statue depicting the god Pan intently 'making love' to a nanny goat. AD 1-20.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Ancestors in domestic shrines. A small number of small busts which survived.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Portrait bust of a Roman man and portrait head of Terentia. Both AD 1-79.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Weapons and tools, possibly of a soldier. AD 1-79.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Ancestors in domestic shrines. A small number of small busts which survived.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Statue of stags, House of the Stags, Herculaneum, AD 1-79.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. This is one piece of jewellery of a family died together.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Archaeologists named this man 'the muleteer' or mule driver after a mule was found nearby. The figure was found crouching on the ground like a beggar, a tragic figure.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Woman cast in resin. This woman was one of 70 people who died in the basement of a villa in Oplontis near Pompeii. The resin technique filled the void her body left in the ash resulting in a cast containing her bones.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Treasures including this depiction of an underwater sea scene.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Frescoes decorating a garden room.
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  • Overhead view of the Roman Forum, Rome, Italy.
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  • A young romantic couple sit in a window of the ruins of a Madrassa in Hauz Khas built by the 14th century Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq
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  • A young romantic couple sit in a window of the ruins of a Madrassa in Hauz Khas built by the 14th century Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Fresco of Terentius Neo and his wife. Note: She wears fine clothing and a hairstyle fashionable in the 60s AD. 50-79 AD.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. A marble panel of the Satyrs and a Maenad. AD 20.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Statue or Hercules (L). In a far from heroic pose, urinating drunkenly, under the influence of Bacchus, the wild and powerful god of wine. AD 1-79. Statue of a satyr, mythical creatures who followed the god Bacchus. AD 1- 79.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Pan and the goat in Roman times. Marble statue depicting the god Pan intently 'making love' to a nanny goat. AD 1-20.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Fresco of Terentius Neo and his wife. Note: She wears fine clothing and a hairstyle fashionable in the 60s AD. 50-79 AD.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Statue of stags, House of the Stags, Herculaneum, AD 1-79.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. This family died together in an alcove under the stairs of a house. One child on its mother's lap claws at the wall at the mother and father fall backwards, killed by extreme heat. Their jewellery which was also found.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. This family died together in an alcove under the stairs of a house. One child on its mother's lap claws at the wall at the mother and father fall backwards, killed by extreme heat.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. This family died together in an alcove under the stairs of a house. One child on its mother's lap claws at the wall at the mother and father fall backwards, killed by extreme heat.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. This family died together in an alcove under the stairs of a house. One child on its mother's lap claws at the wall at the mother and father fall backwards, killed by extreme heat.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Archaeologists named this man 'the muleteer' or mule driver after a mule was found nearby. The figure was found crouching on the ground like a beggar, a tragic figure.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Archaeologists named this man 'the muleteer' or mule driver after a mule was found nearby. The figure was found crouching on the ground like a beggar, a tragic figure.
    D573EF.jpg
  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Archaeologists named this man 'the muleteer' or mule driver after a mule was found nearby. The figure was found crouching on the ground like a beggar, a tragic figure.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Archaeologists named this man 'the muleteer' or mule driver after a mule was found nearby. The figure was found crouching on the ground like a beggar, a tragic figure.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Woman cast in resin. This woman was one of 70 people who died in the basement of a villa in Oplontis near Pompeii. The resin technique filled the void her body left in the ash resulting in a cast containing her bones.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Woman cast in resin. This woman was one of 70 people who died in the basement of a villa in Oplontis near Pompeii. The resin technique filled the void her body left in the ash resulting in a cast containing her bones.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Woman cast in resin. This woman was one of 70 people who died in the basement of a villa in Oplontis near Pompeii. The resin technique filled the void her body left in the ash resulting in a cast containing her bones.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Treasures including this depiction of an underwater sea scene.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Frescoes decorating a garden room.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Mosaic of a guard dog from the house of Orpheus. 1st century AD.
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  • London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Mosaic of a guard dog from the house of Orpheus. 1st century AD.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, some of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the historical artifacts in the Greek and Roman room at the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, some of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the historical artifacts in the Greek and Roman room at the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
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  • Visitors admire the ancient Egyptian Rosetta Stone in Room 4 of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Atmospheric lighting helps display the reconstructed mid-3rd century Roman Mithraeum also known as the Temple of Mithras, Walbrook where bull-sacrifice was practised, now beneath Bloombergs new European headquarters and open to the public, on 26th November 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • A gas contractor uncoils piping collars from a giant reel, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • A dog walker struggles to control an excitable Cockapoo puppy, on 28th February 2017, in Ruskin Park, London borough of Lambeth, England. A Cockapoo is a mixed-breed dog that is the cross between either Cocker Spaniel and a poodle - a mixed breed that has become very popular recently in the UK.
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  • The Roman marble statue of a youth on horseback c. 1st century AD and possibly representing a prince of the ruling Julio-Claudian Dynasty, part of the Farnese Collection, now in the Great Court of the British Museum, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • The colossal head of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II that dominates a room and visitors in the British Museum, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • The bust of mythical Hercules, a Roman copy of the ancient Greek original by Lysippos of about 325-300BC in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum on 28th February 2017, in London, England. The Roman version is said to have been found in lava at the foot of Vesuvius and presented to the museum by Sir William Hamilton in 1776. Hercules is the Roman adaptation of the Greek divine hero Heracles,  the son of Zeus Roman equivalent Jupiter and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.
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  • Visitors crowd around the popular Ptolemaic/Roman Mummies in the British Museum, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • The Lion of Knidos c. 350-200 BC, a 7ton marble colossal from the Turkish cemetery tomb, now residing in the Great Court of the British Museum, on 28th February 2017, in London, England. The tomb once stood overlooking Knidos harbour and was discovered in 1858.
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  • A quirky landscape of a modern-day street cafe's pharaonic illustrations and in the background, the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Local businesses like this are dependent of the tourism industry and therefore badly affected by the downturn. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III.
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  • A mounted horse and tourist stallholder in front of the ancient Egyptian columns of Luxor Temple, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Local businesses are obviously very dependent of the tourism industry and therefore badly affected by the downturn. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. The temple behind was built by Amenhotep III, completed by Tutankhamun then added to by Rameses II. Towards the rear is a granite shrine dedicated to Alexander the Great and in another part, was a Roman encampment. The temple has been in almost continuous use as a place of worship right up to the present day.
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  • A young Egyptian man rides a horse in front of the ancient Egyptian columns of Luxor Temple, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Rides are offered in the nearby town square to young tourists who can walk around the public space. The temple behind was built by Amenhotep III, completed by Tutankhamun then added to by Rameses II. Towards the rear is a granite shrine dedicated to Alexander the Great and in another part, was a Roman encampment. The temple has been in almost continuous use as a place of worship right up to the present day.
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  • A local Egyptian man walks past the ancient Egyptian Colossi of Memnon site, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. The Colossi of Memnon (memorial temple of Amenophis III) are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who reigned during Dynasty XVIII. For the past 3,400 years (since 1350 BC) they have stood in the Theban necropolis, west of the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor.
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  • Sunlit hieroglyphs in the dark recesses of the ancient Egyptian Luxor Temple, Nile Valley, Egypt. The temple was built by Amenhotep III, completed by Tutankhamun then added to by Rameses II. Towards the rear is a granite shrine dedicated to Alexander the Great and in another part, was a Roman encampment. The temple has been in almost continuous use as a place of worship right up to the present day.
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  • Tourist groups stand and photograph beneath the giant colossi at the entrance of the ancient Egyptian Luxor Temple, Nile Valley, Egypt. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP. The temple was built by Amenhotep III, completed by Tutankhamun then added to by Rameses II. Towards the rear is a granite shrine dedicated to Alexander the Great and in another part, was a Roman encampment. The temple has been in almost continuous use as a place of worship right up to the present day.
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  • A detail of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs showing Somalian slaves at the ancient Egyptian Temple of Hatshepsut near the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the Djeser-Djeseru, is located beneath cliffs at Deir el Bahari ("the Northern Monastery"). The mortuary temple is dedicated to the sun god Amon-Ra and is considered one of the "incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt." The temple was the site of the massacre of 62 people, mostly tourists, by Islamists on 17 November 1997.
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  • Local guides and caretakers on the steps at the otherwise deserted ancient Egyptian Temple of Hatshepsut near the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP. The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the Djeser-Djeseru, is located beneath cliffs at Deir el Bahari ("the Northern Monastery"). The mortuary temple is dedicated to the sun god Amon-Ra and is considered one of the "incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt." The temple was the site of the massacre of 62 people, mostly tourists, by Islamists on 17 November 1997.
    egypt151-03-03-2016_1.jpg
  • A caretaker sweeps dusty steps at the otherwise deserted ancient Egyptian Temple of Hatshepsut near the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP. The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the Djeser-Djeseru, is located beneath cliffs at Deir el Bahari ("the Northern Monastery"). The mortuary temple is dedicated to the sun god Amon-Ra and is considered one of the "incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt." The temple was the site of the massacre of 62 people, mostly tourists, by Islamists on 17 November 1997.
    egypt150-03-03-2016_1.jpg
  • A caretaker sweeps dusty steps at the otherwise deserted ancient Egyptian Temple of Hatshepsut near the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP. The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, the Djeser-Djeseru, is located beneath cliffs at Deir el Bahari ("the Northern Monastery"). The mortuary temple is dedicated to the sun god Amon-Ra and is considered one of the "incomparable monuments of ancient Egypt." The temple was the site of the massacre of 62 people, mostly tourists, by Islamists on 17 November 1997.
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  • Guards await tourists near Ramessid columns in the peristyle court at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
    egypt52-01-03-2016_1.jpg
  • Hieroglyphs on the first pylon at the ancient Egyptian site of Medinet Habu (1194-1163BC), the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Medinet Habu is an important New Kingdom period structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. Aside from its size and architectural and artistic importance, the temple is probably best known as the source of inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III.
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  • Tourism and antiquities Police hut and tourists at the ancient Egyptian Colossi of Memnon site, Luxor Nile Valley, Egypt. The Colossi of Memnon (memorial temple of Amenophis III) are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, who reigned during Dynasty XVIII. For the past 3,400 years (since 1350 BC) they have stood in the Theban necropolis, west of the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Euro-tourism accounts for 27% of the total flow and in total, tourism accounts for 11.3% of Egypt's GDP.
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  • Detail in the British Museum of an Assyrian relief. Assyrian kings competed to outdo each other with carved reliefs on interior walls. This tradition began with King Ashurnasirpal II (reigned 883-859BC) at Nimrud. Nimrud is the later Arab name for the ancient Assyrian city originally known as Kalhu, located 30 kilometres (20 mi) south of the city of Mosul, and 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of the village of Selamiyah in the Nineveh plains in northern Mesopotamia.
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  • Lely's Venus (Aphrodite) in the British Museum, London. Here, the Godess Venus is surprised as she bathes, her water jar resting on her thigh. She crouches naked and attempts to cover herself with arms and hands. Naked Aphrodite was a popular subject with ancient Greek sculptors as she was with the Romans who called her Venus. This statue is a Roman copy of the Greek original, probably made in the 1st or 2nd century.
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  • Pat Marden rreaches up to attend an arch of apples at the East Malling Research, Kent, England that provides science-based plant and food solutions to industry and Government. As a  Horticultural Technician Pat and her colleagues work for this organisation which is the principal UK provider of top-class horticultural research and development for the perennial crops sector. They have for example, genetically fingerprinted all 2300 apples and over 250 pears of the National Fruit Collection and used DNA markers called microsatellites to produce individual profiles for trees. Looking upwards we see Pat balanced on a tapering ladder to reach leaves and branches that form this feature in the laboratory gardens and which has eight similar arches.
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  • Elite ceremonial soldiers called Evzones or Proedriki Froura (Presidential Guard), parade on Acropolis Hill, Athens. This special contingent of the light infantry unit are on duty at the Acropolis during the national holiday of 'No Day,’ celebrating the day when Mussolini was denied a marching route through Greece in 1941. The Acropolis was once the centre of classical Greek culture which the world has inherited for its laws and philosophical thinking. Mounted above the Athenian city within fortified 60m high walls, its history is a World Heritage Site, important because of its “universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex." The establishment of democracy, took a leading position amongst the other city-states of the ancient world.
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  • Fallen Ionic and Doric columns lay in the undergrowth at Olympia, Peloponnese, Greece. The 29th modern Olympic circus came home to Greece in 2004 and in the birthplace of athletics and the Olympic ideal, amid the woodland of ancient Olympia where for 1,100 continuous years, the ancients held their pagan festival of sport and debauchery here. These fluted columns that date to about 400BC that now lie in the shade were originally piled on top of each other to construct - among other buildings too - the Temple of Zeus. There, the athletes made offerings to Nike, the Goddess of Victory before going out to compete in the many sports. The modern games share many characteristics with its ancient counterpart. Corruption, politics and cheating interfered then as it does now.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, one of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the ancient Greek Parthenon's Elgin Marbles Metopes and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, some of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy Lely's Venus (Aphrodite) the historical artifacts at the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England. Naked Aphrodite was a popular subject with ancient Greek sculptors as she was with the Romans who called her Venus. This statue is a Roman copy of the Greek original, probably made in the 1st or 2nd century.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, one of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the Elgin Marbles and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, one of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the ancient Greek Parthenon's Elgin Marbles Metopes and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, a door is open to allow fresh air into the room containing the Elgin Marbles and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, one of the first young visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the Elgin Marbles and other historical artifacts in the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, some of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy ancient Egyptian artifacts at the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, a visitor to the British Museum wearing a face covering reads decriptions of an ancient Greek vase that depicts the wedding of Peleus and Thetis along with imaginary animals (Athens, c580BC) by painter, Sophilos, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England. Some of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, once again enjoy the historical artifacts at this poluar London attraction.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, some of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, can once again enjoy the historical artifacts, including the Rosetta Stone, at the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
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  • Now re-opened after months of closure during the Coronavirus pandemic, some of the first visitors who have pre-booked free tickets, can once again enjoy the historical artifacts, including the Rosetta Stone, at the British Museum, on 2nd September 2020, in London, England.
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  • Visitors and the South Stairs of the British Museum, on 12th June 2018, in London, England.
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  • A 1st or 2nd century Roman statue of Venus discovered by painter and dealer Gavin Hamilton at Ostia in 1775, on 12th June 2018, in London, England.
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  • A 1st or 2nd century Roman statue of Venus discovered by painter and dealer Gavin Hamilton at Ostia in 1775, on 12th June 2018, in London, England.
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  • A visitor walks around the Parthenon Elgin Marbles in Room 18 of the British Museum, on 12th June 2018, in London, England.
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  • Visitors admire the ancient Egyptian Rosetta Stone in Room 4 of the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London, England.
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  • Atmospheric lighting helps display the reconstructed mid-3rd century Roman Mithraeum also known as the Temple of Mithras, Walbrook where bull-sacrifice was practised, now beneath Bloombergs new European headquarters and open to the public, on 26th November 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • A mudlarker looks for historical items lying in the mud and silt of the river Thames at low tide, on 30th October 2017, at Queenhithe, the City of London, England. Queenhithe is also the name of the ancient, but now disused, dock which derives from the Queens Dock, or Queens Quay, which was probably a Roman dock or small harbour. The dock existed during the period when the Wessex king, Alfred the Great, re-established the City of London, circa 886 AD.
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  • A plate on display at the Galeria Regionale di Palazzo Bellomo, Ortigia, Sicily, Italy<br />
The museum is located in the prestigious 12th century Palazzo Bellomo. The palace was finally sold in 1901 to the Administration of Antiquities and Fine Arts to designate it as a Museum.
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  • A mediaeval frieze at the Galeria Regionale di Palazzo Bellomo, Ortigia, Sicily, Italy<br />
The museum is located in the prestigious 12th century Palazzo Bellomo. The palace was finally sold in 1901 to the Administration of Antiquities and Fine Arts to designate it as a Museum.
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  • A sarcophagus at the Galeria Regionale di Palazzo Bellomo, Ortigia, Sicily, Italy. The museum is located in the prestigious 12th century Palazzo Bellomo. The palace was finally sold in 1901 to the Administration of Antiquities and Fine Arts to designate it as a Museum.
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  • A statue and a mediaeval frieze at the Galeria Regionale di Palazzo Bellomo, Ortigia, Sicily, Italy. The museum is located in the prestigious 12th century Palazzo Bellomo. The palace was finally sold in 1901 to the Administration of Antiquities and Fine Arts to designate it as a Museum. .
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  • A retailers construction hoarding and street barriers and signs near Covent Garden, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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  • A dog walker struggles to control an excitable Cockapoo puppy, on 28th February 2017, in Ruskin Park, London borough of Lambeth, England. A Cockapoo is a mixed-breed dog that is the cross between either Cocker Spaniel and a poodle - a mixed breed that has become very popular recently in the UK.
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  • A pedestrian under an umbrella walks past the H&M logo, on 28th February 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • The Roman marble statue of a youth on horseback c. 1st century AD and possibly representing a prince of the ruling Julio-Claudian Dynasty, part of the Farnese Collection, now in the Great Court of the British Museum, on 28th February 2017, in London, England.
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