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Now playing Next Culture news Kyiv war exhibition displays objects left behind by Russian soldiers The dust has hardly settled. Not long ago Russian troops were bearing down on Ukraine's capital - now the story of this chapter of the invasion is already being told in Kyiv's State Museum of the Great Patriotic War 10/06/2022
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Now playing Next Culture news Egypt unveils massive haul of newly discovered ancient artefacts Egyptian archaeologists have unveiled a cache of 150 bronze statues depicting various gods and goddesses including "Bastet, Anubis, Osiris, Amunmeen, Isis, Nefertum and Hathor," along with 250 sarcophagi at the Saqqara archaeological site south of Cairo 01/06/2022