As they settle into a small cottage in a quiet village, they soon find their idyll overshadowed by the superstitious warnings of their housekeeper and the legend of two marble tomb effigies who ...

Map of Iran and ibex hunting in mid 1970s With 1974 barely a week old I found myself sitting on a mountain so close to the ...

The reasons the Perrys list for booking this particular cruise are the same as mine – a preference for small-ship expedition ... about resemble phallic stone columns. Loading The cemetery ...

Their disheveled hair was gray with dust; their flesh was a pale-green tinge and they seemed unreal, shrunken by death into something inhuman, poor effigies ... who had small, vicious eyes ...

When looking for the most unique small town in Iowa, you might have overlooked Eldon ... as far as the eye can see. Effigy Mounds National Monument in Harpers Ferry has one of 18 visitor interpretive ...

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Within the hallowed grounds of Romsey Abbey, among the silent tombs and whispered prayers, lies an effigy of Sir William Petty. This unassuming stone figure belies the vibrant life it represents ...

High on a hill in southwest Martinique are 20 white stone effigies, silently facing Diamond Beach and the Caribbean Sea. They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly ...

High on a hill in southwest Martinique are 20 white stone effigies, silently facing Diamond Beach and the Caribbean Sea. They commemorate an 1830 catastrophe when a slave ship failed to properly ...

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Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...