We travel into the depths of suburbia in search of Moai and ancient Pakistani Priest Kings.
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Japan’s Roofless Museum holds many man-made marvels from the Sphinx to the Parthenon
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A full-sized replica of the Great Sphinx of Giza has appeared in a Chinese village near Shijiazhuang in China’s Hebei Province. The sphinx is open for tourist visits, angering officials in Egypt who say the appearance of the Chinese sphinx is detrimental to their tourism industry.
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