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The Crown of Thorns - comprised of a circle of rushes encased in a crystal and gold tube - was brought back to the cathedral in a ceremony overseen by the Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Ulrich.

“Bahia Emerald” is a misnomer because it is not one gem but nine dazzling crystals encased in a rough black rock 30 inches wide and 33 inches high.

There, archaeologists found two pieces of flint encased in birch tar residue, indicating the flint pieces were once hafted to other objects.

The carcass—containing the head, forelimbs, and front part of the animal—was discovered encased in a chunk of ice in 2020 near the Badyarikha River in northern Siberia, above the Arctic Circle.

But the dinosaur, encased in layers of sediment, is exempt from this endless cycle of growth and decay.