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• “The story of the voyage of Nearchus is one of the best-preserved travel accounts from ancient times, largely because the log of the expedition was copied almost word for word by the historian Arrian.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

• “Carcassonne, one of Europe's best-preserved fortified towns, once included partridge in its cassoulet, but these days most versions use duck instead.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Comfort of a Hearty Cassoulet

• “The small agricultural community at Kerkouane in modern Tunisia is one of the best-preserved Carthaginian sites, although it was so obscure a settlement that it is not mentioned in any of our sources.”

  The Wall Street Journal: An Empire of the Mediterranean

• “We were searching for the city's fabled Jewish Quarter, one of the oldest and best-preserved in Europe.”

  The Huffington Post: Laura Lippstone: What Does Michelle Obama Know From Matzo Balls?

• “We adventured in Cienfuegos, which is renowned for its Cuban architectural achievement and in Trinidad, which is the best-preserved colonial city in Cuba, just to name a few.”

  The Huffington Post: Lili Boyle: An American Girl in Cuba

• “But there are mouldings and carvings wherever you look, and the medieval glass is some of the best-preserved in England.”

  The Guardian: Gothic architecture in Britain: examples from the era

• “Today, they have emerged again atop a desert hill more than a kilometer half a mile from the surf, where researchers have begun to unearth one of the world's best-preserved graveyards of prehistoric whales.”

  The Huffington Post: Whales In The Desert: Fossil Bonanza Poses Mystery

• “Experts say the newly-found tracks are the best-preserved collection of polar dinosaur footprints ever found in the southern hemisphere.”

  Voice of America: Polar Dinosaur Tracks Discovered in Australia

• “If you want to buy the world's best-preserved Stradivari violin, this is your opportunity," he said.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A $10 Million Fiddle? Stradivarius Takes Another Bow at Auction

• “Evidence from tests on 80 skeletons of young men found in Yorkshire gardens points to world's best-preserved gladiator graveyard, archaeologists say”

  The Guardian: 7,000-year-old timbers found beneath MI6 Thames headquarters

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