Sentences with phrase «prehistoric monument»
A "prehistoric monument" is a term used to describe ancient structures or monuments that were created by humans before written history began. These monuments, such as Stonehenge or the Pyramids of Egypt, provide clues about how early civilizations lived and are important for understanding our history. Full definition
Ceide Fields is the most extensive prehistoric monument in the world.
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The 1970s saw her series of vertical works derived from menhirs, megaliths and other prehistoric monuments.
Amid the clutter of his office at the University of Birmingham in England, the 52 - year - old professor of landscape archaeology is displaying early results of a virtual excavation at Britain's best - known prehistoric monument.
From Stone Age circles to Easter Island's statues, majestic prehistoric monuments may be far less to do with gods, kings or the heavens than we thought
Cascading waterfalls, beautiful beaches and prehistoric monuments await.
Hidden in Jersey's eastern countryside is La Hougue Bie Museum, one of Europe's finest prehistoric monuments.
Now Ursula von Rydingsvard builds her own prehistoric monuments in Madison Square, and again I start out skeptical.
In the late 1950s he travelled to Carnac in Brittany, to study prehistoric monuments.
Mirza's stone circle refers to prehistoric monuments such as Stonehenge and Nine Ladies, megaliths erected by humans and used for mysterious practices related to communion with the Earth.
In the 1970s the emphasis changed to man's early intervention in the landscape in, for example, Megalith, 1971, and Elegy, 1975, derived from megaliths and other prehistoric monuments.
The parcel at 1204 Ulster Avenue is directly behind Five Guys Burgers & Fries, and on that property is the circle of stone pillars roughly 75 - feet in circumference described by Town Supervisor James E. Quigley, III as resembling Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, believed to have been constructed somewhere between 3000 - 2000 B.C.E.
A history of Stonehenge, explaining how the prehistoric monument developed from an early henge into its final form, as well as its later history.
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles (3 km) west of Amesbury.
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.
Travel across the English countryside to the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge...
His final masterpiece, the church of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, on a hilltop in eastern France, looks like a cross between a prehistoric monument and a giant mushroom.
Already widely acclaimed for their video works, Cheng Ran will present two new photographs, Ghost of Tundra 1 and Ghost of Tundra 2 (2010) in which the iconic Hollywood billboard - landmark and its surrounding landscape is turned into a prehistoric monument.