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Turn Of The Millennium Falcon
The partial skeleton of a female gyrfalcon has been discovered near the top of a well in the citadel of Karabalgasun, the capital of the Uighur Empire (a.d. 745–840), in central Mongolia’s Orkhon Valley. Karabalgasun was destroyed and abandoned in A.
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Artifact
The image of a medieval knight moving slowly and stiffly under the tremendous weight of his costly armor as he readies for battle or a joust is firmly fixed in people’s imagination. But, according to art historian Matthias Goll, much of this vision i
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Palaces Of The Golden Horde
When Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the late fourteenth century, he set one of his stories in “Sarai, in the land of the Tartars.” At that time, Sarai was widely known as the capital of the mighty Golden Horde. An independent state within the

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