From the choir screen of Amiens Cathedral.
The relic of the reputed head of St John the Baptist appears to have been acquired in the Sack of Constantinople in 1204 and arrived in Amiens in1206.
Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empire
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From *Popular Mechanics*:
Today, the *ancient city of Hattusha*—the capital of the Hittite empire
that ruled north-central Turkey in the late Bronze Age...
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