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In an olive grove in southern Greece., not far from the discovery of an ancient palace, researchers found that the Earth had covered over—and shielded from looters—the entrance to a 3,500-year-old tomb.
Inside: jewels, bronze weapons, and clues to life in early Greece.
“To the team’s great surprise, the grave was intact,” Nat Geo History reports. An ivory plaque with a griffin gave the occupant a name: the Griffin Warrior. From this treasure trove, more than 1,400 objects have been catalogued and removed. Among them: the Combat Agate (pictured above), which depicts a scene among three warriors; and the remains of a very old body (illustrated below, with other objects).
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY BALAZS GARDI | | Road of ruin: Generations of planners, builders, and funders envisioned great things from the 1,400-mile road that circles Afghanistan. Today, “the battered roadway is a bone-rattling testament to the toll of rampant violence and graft that followed instead,” Jason Motlagh writes for Nat Geo. Much has changed in the past year under the rule of the Taliban, who took over Afghanistan’s capital after the Americans pulled out Aug. 15, 2021. (Pictured above, 10-year-old Rafiullah packs dirt into a bomb crater on Highway 1.)
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY MOISES SAMAN | | But first, a wedding: In a series of black-and-white photographs, Moises Saman shows how life endures among centuries-old buildings in Yemen, where civil strife has been amped into a deadly proxy war for influence in the Middle East between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The Yemeni people, like these children attending a family wedding last July in Sanaa’s Old City, have become the targets of that gamesmanship, Nat Geo reports.
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 | | The process of learning is never ending. You’re learning all the time. You keep getting better at it every step of the way, and you never want to feel like you know it all already. | | | | Sandesh Kandur | Documentary filmmaker, Nat Geo Explorer
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHANIE MAZE, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | Fruit for sale: A story in the August 1984 issue of National Geographic profiled growth in Mexico City, which today is the fifth largest city in the world. This image recently resurfaced in our archival Photo of the Day feature.
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