Sentences with phrase «built stone monuments»

Ancient cultures often modified natural rock formations or built stone monuments to mark the motions of the sun and moon, charting the seasons, creating calendars and monitoring eclipses.

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This truly great ancient monument consists of nine levels (six square and three round) built from two million stone blocks.

A prehistoric monument, Stonehenge is one of the most famous sites in the world — a ring of stones that stand in the midst of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, believed to have been built somewhere between 3000 BC and 2000 BC.

BAD is in the beating heart of Catania: in a XIX century building, next to the historical fish market «la Pescheria» and within a stone's throw of the Cathedral and main monuments of the city.

Designed in affectionate tribute to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Kempinski Hotel Ishtar Dead Sea is built with local stone boasting 345 rooms and suites within a stylish Arabesque monument building that weaves clean and simple lines into an Arabian theme.

These stone monuments were built during the enigmatic Nuragic civilisation, which existed on Sardinia from the 18th century BC to the 2nd century AD.

A sparkly arrival to Washington DC's sober National Mall, David Adjaye's new museum building stands like a startling golden crown, erupting from the lawn between the slender obelisk of the Washington monument and the blank stone mausoleum of the National Museum of American History.

From the outside, the museum looks like two entirely different buildings, a monument to the distinction between old and new: Botta's iconic squat brick and stone parent, and the architectural firm Snøhetta's much taller scion of white, polymorphic, high - tech tile.