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High in the rugged cliffs of Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley, two colossal statues once gazed out over a land crisscrossed by ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

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The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.