The detailed painting on the palace walls at the ancient Egyptian capital of Amarna was discovered around a century ago. Modern researchers attempted to identify the species in the painting as the ...

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Bundi’s main draw is a splendid palace complex looming over its old quarter and artificial lake. Visiting Bundi in 1888, the writer Rudyard Kipling memorably described it as one men “build for ...

Excavations at the Donggung Palace in Korea resulted in the discovery of a 1,300-year-old flush toilet likely once used by the crown prince. The toilet, while not the first of its kind across the ...