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Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many moments of tumbling contemplation. When travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor ...

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MÓNICA SERRANO, NGM STAFF; PATRICIA HEALY. SOURCES: GABRIEL PRIETO, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TRUJILLO ... suggesting different geographic origins. Elongated skulls, formed by binding the head ...