Sentences with phrase «ancient stone structure»

The Kaaba (literally «the cube» in Arabic) is an ancient stone structure that was built and re-built by prophets as a house of monotheistic worship.

Most of the ancient stone structures are allowed to be explored and climbed, except for a select few.

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The ancient structures — more than 330 meters inside the current entrance to the cave — include a scattering of small, deliberately arranged heaps of stone along with two large rings, one about 2.2 meters across and the other nearly three times that size.

The fossils discovered in these formations include stromatolites — layered rock structures created by communities of ancient microbes — and several other signatures of microbial life, such as a microbial palisade texture preserved in stone, and bubbles that were most likely trapped in a sticky substance produced by ancient bacteria.

Tikal's sprawling urban site contains some of the most impressive Mayan palace, temple, and altar structures - many housing the ancient tombs of kings and important political figures of the time, as well as elaborately carved wooden door lintels and stelae (carved stone shafts).

The ruins of the ancient structures had their stones reused for residential construction of the agricultural village of Rockstone Pond in modern times, but the ancient site did not come to the attention of archeologists until 1963, when the existence of a sizable ancient site was recognized from the air by pilot and amateur Mayanist Hal Ball.

An ancient Manor House dating back to the end of 1700, the stone and terracotta structure has been completely restored to maintain the style history and culture of the area.

In a sort of private system of reconstruction, Peris juxtaposes found stones, debris, ruins of architectural structures — both ancient and modern — in order to construct his poetical megaliths (Dolmen), with their graceful levity compensating the gravity and weight of their material of origin.