Extravagant relics of their centuries of folly, intrigue, excess and war are everywhere you look.
Here, clustered together in the middle of nowhere, were relics of Irish civilization that spanned thousands of years.
He has founded a firm called Trebletap which specialises in making art from war relics.
In a similar attack in 2001, the Taliban destroyed ancient Buddhist relics in Afghanistan.
But the door to buying them is left open by an injunction that Catholics "rescue" relics.
Investments turn to relics in investor portfolios for two primary reasons: sentimentality and inertia.
Do businesses today still allow these inhumane relics of the Industrial Revolution to survive?
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My questions started with the basics: Are carriers cold war relics as critics charge?
Europe is littered with relics of the saints, whose real example their admirers seldom follow.
The latter, a nonprofit, acquires relics through donations and exhibits them all over the globe.
As U.S. Catholic congregations shrink and churches close, deaccessioned relics are finding their way onto Ebay.
Warburg and PaineWebber names, noble relics of the days when the industry was more fragmented.
This will be followed by a chance to venerate the relics until 20:30 GMT.
The militants have attacked Timbuktu's historic tombs and shrines, claiming the relics are idolatrous.
That makes the relics venerated and Mr Rotundo means to make the most of that.
Here he lives amid the relics of his beloved her clothes, her letters, a length of her hair.
What the winning bidder would be buying (stated the catalog) were reliquaries, not the relics they contained.
This website pays tribute to those relics of the 1950s that were oases for the weary traveler.
To Thomas Serafin, a Los Angeles photographer, any commercial trade in relics is nothing less than heinous.
These relics of the world's magnificence appear inside the temple's precincts not as idols but as tribute.
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Memories of dual or multi-tiered exchange systems are limited, as they are fortunately relics of the distant past.
He has started two organizations: the International Crusade for Holy Relics USA and the Apostolate for Holy Relics.
The agreement restricts Christie's from selling cultural relics, which predate 1911, such as valuable classical paintings and antiques.
The trestle points to the difficulties of determining what relics constitute rock lore and ought to be preserved.
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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral is hosting the relics of St John Bosco, from 15:00 until 17:15 GMT on Monday.
In the 15th century, the hospital commissioned the artist Hans Memling to create a shrine for the relics.
Far from being silent relics, many pseudogenes are transcribed into RNA, some exhibiting a tissue-specific pattern of activation.
As a result, relics of Christian martyrs and saints were moved from the catacombs to churches in the city centre.
The blues have had a harder time than Presley relics attracting the attention of visitors and local boosters.
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It said the preservation of relics by being buried under sand was rare outside of the Middle East.
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