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The Lost Colony of Roanoke

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King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

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Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

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Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles

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archaeology Hittite tomb Sea People Troy Göbekli Tepe Ephesus Çatalhüyük Pergamum Myra Ani Sardis Miletus Hierapolis

Turkey

Fertile Crescent

Assyria

ancient kingdom, Mesopotamia

ancient Middle East

ancient Middle East

historical region, Asia

Key People

Seleucus I Nicator

Seleucid ruler

Suppiluliumas I

Hittite king

Sir Leonard Woolley

British archaeologist

David George Hogarth

David George Hogarth

British archaeologist

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Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)

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Tomb of Mohammed Bin Ali, Salalah, Oman.

A View of the Middle East