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Felix gem intaglio. A prophesy revealed that the Greeks could only capture Troy if the Palladion statue of Athena was in their procession. Diomedes, right, holds the statue but in order to claim it, he killed the temple guard, whose feet are visible on the ground. This angers the gods
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A tablet from Iraq, which tells the story of a man who was caught stealing a duck from the sacred meal of Ishtar, and waiting for his trial in the jail of the temple, kills the prison warden in order to escape, but then breaks his hip in an attempt to scale the temple walls. 626-539 BC
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Otagi Nenbutsu-ji is a Buddhist temple located in the hillside of the Arashiyama neighborhood of Kyoto, Japan. It is known for the 1200 arhat statues that cover the hillside around the temple grounds and was originally founded by Empress Shōtoku around Kyoto's Gion district in 766
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The Marques Tower at Chenonceau. It is the only visible vestige of the medieval castle of the Marques family, razed to the foundations by Thomas Bohier in 1515 to build what would be the first stage of the new Chenonceau. It was the keep of the old building, consisting of a round tower...
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