civilizations
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Leang Tedongnge: World’s Oldest Figurative Cave Painting
Discover Leang Tedongnge on Sulawesi — home of the world’s oldest known figurative artwork, a 45,500-year-old painting of a Sulawesi warty pig.
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Ta’ Għejżu Cave Gozo: Malta’s Temple-Period Ritual Cave
Discover Ta’ Għejżu Cave — Gozo’s 5,500-year-old ritual cave on the Xagħra plateau, beside Malta’s great Xagħra Circle hypogeum and the Ġgantija…
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Yanxia Cave Hangzhou: China’s Earliest Sixteen Arhats
Discover Yanxia Cave on Hangzhou’s South Peak — one of China’s earliest complete Sixteen Arhats stone-carving sets, dating to the Wuyue Kingdom…
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Black Dragon Canyon: How DStretch Solved a Rock-Art Mystery
Discover how a 2015 DStretch study proved Utah’s ‘Black Dragon’ pictograph is not a pterodactyl — but five separate Barrier Canyon Style…
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Virupaksha Temple Hampi: The 50-Metre Gopuram of 1510
Discover Virupaksha Temple Hampi — the only major Vijayanagara temple to survive the 1565 sack, fronted by a 50-metre nine-storey gopuram built…
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Visvakarma Cave: Ellora’s Only Buddhist Chaitya Hall
Discover Visvakarma Cave — Ellora’s only Buddhist chaitya hall, carved around 650 CE with a 27-foot stupa and an 11-foot seated Buddha…