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In 2001 the Taliban destroyed part of another of the world's treasures -- the huge Buddha statues in the Bamiyan Valley on the ancient Silk Road in Afghanistan.
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The Trust says Trantershill Wood, in the Slad Valley, is an ancient woodland abundant in native flora and fauna.
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But the ancient rite, common in the Nile Valley and other parts of Africa, has remained particularly prevalent in Egypt.
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When I was there, you did not have to search hard to see priceless ancient etchings in the rock of the valley, or find sites like Butkara, just outside Mingora, built as a Buddhist monastery.
BBC: Remembering Swat's peaceful past
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For centuries, these peaks served as mighty ramparts, shielding valley dwellers from invaders, protecting ancient customs and, above all, preserving legends as old as anyone might dare to guess.
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Last month Egyptian archaeologists travelled to the Louvre Museum in Paris to collect five ancient fresco fragments stolen from a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in the 1980s.
BBC: Rosetta Stone row 'would be solved by loan to Egypt'
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Undoubtedly, who you know has been important throughout history, whether in the trade networks of ancient Greece, or in the dense web of high tech companies in Silicon Valley.
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