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Places of awe — Africa

Great Zimbabwe — mortarless stone at city scale.

Great Zimbabwe — the stone city of the gold-trade cultures.

Edwin Smith and Andrew Dale, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Conical Tower — engineering without a named engineer.

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Mapungubwe gold — worked rhinoceros, proof of deep African metallurgy.

Sian Tiley-Nel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Places of awe — India (the symbol chain)

Ellora, Kailasa — a temple cut downward from a single mountain.

Courtyard and reliefs at the Kailasa temple, Ellora.

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Jantar Mantar, Jaipur — astronomical instruments at city scale.

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Amber Fort — the Rajput hill forts the Brotherhood's maps still use.

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Peoples, in their own dress

Rajasthani woman in traditional dress.

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