Dwarf people really exist!

Swedish inscription translates ”This little farmhouse gnome was found by my father the winter of 1866 inside the old barn wall. He was by then already long since deseased.”

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Underground city of Derinkuyu in Cappadocia

The most thoroughly excavated of Cappadocia's many underground cities, Derinkuyu rises an impressive eight stories and reaches depths of over 85 meters. The underground labyrinth of cave rooms and tunnels is fed by a remarkable ventilation system and offers a fascinating insight into the history of Cappadocia's cave dwellers.

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Sotheby's auction of world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible

The world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible will be auctioned in May and could fetch a whopping $50 million. The Sassoon Codex, as the more than thousand-year-old book is called after its best-known owner, David Solomon Sassoon, who died in 1942, will go under the hammer in May, the auction house Sotheby's announced in New York on Wednesday.

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