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The Palestine Exploration Fund’s Survey of Western Palestine was a multi-year survey of the region’s ancient remains as well as its contemporary peoples. Here, a surveyor and local assistant measure distances from a fixed point (1925, Palestine Exploration Fund)

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After the disaster of Feb. 1, 2003, pieces of Columbia space shuttle debris are seen stored in a hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida during accident investigation in 2003. More than 82,000 pieces of debris were recovered. Imaged released May 15, 2003 [NASA]

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Divination Liver Model: Omen of siege, Caly, City of Mari, Mesopotamia, c. 2000BCE. Excavated by André Parrot in 1933.

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A bronze reproducing the "Liver of Piacenza", an animal liver engraved with the Etruscan names of the deities connected to each part of the organ. [Piacenza, Museo civico] Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

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Clay model of a sheep's liver used in Haruspicy, (liver divination) Babylonian Temple School,
c. 2000 B.C. [Wellcome Library, London] Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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Gertrude Bell num campo arqueológico alemão, Babilónia, 1909 (?).

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T.E. Lawrence (in the middle) on an archaeological site at Carchemish, an important ancient independent city but also having been part of the Mitanni, Hittite and Neo Assyrian Empires,…