The Arco Stelae consist of six Copper Age statue menhirs which were discovered in the vicinity of Arco, Trentino, in 1989. They are similar in style to...
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inscribed standing stones throughout Ireland Runestones Standing stones Stelae Stone circle Stone of the Pregnant Woman, Baalbek Stonehenge in present-day...
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hieroglyphic inscriptions indicate it was dedicated in May 591. Carved stelae depicting Chinkultic's rulers are scattered among the ruins. Acropolis of...
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The most familiar form of commemoration in death is the standing stone stelae; stone slabs taller than they are wide upon which they are inscribed with...
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walls of temples or other buildings. Most frequently the slabs of marble (stelae), stone metal or other material upon which the inscriptions were incised...
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Smith claimed that certain motifs present in the carvings on the Mayan stelae at Copán represented the Asian elephant, and wrote a book on the topic entitled...
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survives in a number of places and, until the arrival of Christianity, stone stelae, often carved with simple reliefs, were erected as grave-markers and for...
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Portuguese Brazilian) Amazonic Range (Serra Amazônica)/Deforestation Arc (Arco do Desflorestamento) Southern / Broad Southern (one of its earlier centers...
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