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Forgotten, The 8th Wonder: Taj Mahal
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Located at the city of Agra in the State of Uttar Pradesh, the Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful masterpieces of architecture in the world. Agra, situated about 200 km south of New Delhi, was the Capital of the Mughals (Moguls), the Muslim Emperors who ruled Northern India between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Mughals were the descendents of two of the most skilled warriors in history: the Turks and the Mongols. The Mughal dynasty reached its...

Are Archaeologists Always Absent-Minded?
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Doesn’t it seem that archaeologists show up a lot in popular culture these days? The most familiar images of Indiana Jones and Lara Croft leap to mind; but you can find plenty of others in movies, television, toys, books, even advertising for retirement plans. Decades of archaeologists pictured in movies include Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient, Peter Cushing in the 1959 version of The Mummy, John Hannah in the 1996 version; Jason Miller in the Exorcist; Charlton Heston (heaven help us) in The Awakening. Archaeologists populate novels these days, too: Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody; Tony Hillerman’s Thief of Time;...

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