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The Silk Road capital whose colossal arch still rises from the Mesopotamian plain

Ctesiphon, with an Rnas Seaplane image: a depiction of the famous Ctesiphon arch in an arid landscape, with a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane in flight above.
Ctesiphon, with an Rnas Seaplane image: a depiction of the famous Ctesiphon arch in an arid landscape, with a Royal Naval Air Service seaplane in flight above. © Donald Maxwell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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