IPBA Time Travel to Ancient Greece and Rome

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Have you dreamt of traveling back in time to ancient Greece and Rome? To experience those amazing structures in their heyday, that now exist only in preserved ruins? (Well, maybe with what we know now, you might not take a chance on visiting Pompeii). Perfume and vanity item vendors have long capitalized on our fantasies about these ancient cultures through the images of columns, draped robes, statuary, and mythological characters. Let’s let them take us on a little time-travel excursion …

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