Sentences with phrase «rock inscriptions»

In the oldest writings and in the rock inscriptions of early man, it signifies the idea of enclosure, of home, of settlement.

Go on to tour the ancient and sacred capital of Polonnaruwa visiting key sites including the rock inscriptions of Nissankamalla.

Archaeologists from Yale University and the Royal museums of art and history, Belgium have discovered ancient Egyptian rock inscriptions that can tell when a system of hieroglyphic writing began to attract broad layers of Egyptian society.

This relatively wide, though sparse, diffusion extended up to Kashmir where near Tenkse, on the eastern side of Leh, rock inscriptions still bear witness today to a settlement of Syrian Christians, which existed there around AD.

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O that my words might be inscribed, O that they might be engraved in an inscription, cut with an iron tool and filled with lead to be a witness in hard rock!

She soon declared cyberwar against Queens City Councilman Rory Lancman, who objected to her tweet lionizing a small Palestinian boy pictured clutching rocks to lob at Israeli soldiers, to which she added the offensive inscription, «The definition of courage.»

Sacks's survey includes forays into topics ranging from the history of typesetting to the twisty tale of c, k, and q. (The Phoenicians pronounced the precursors of k and q in slightly different ways, while the Etruscans replaced the Greek gamma - which stood for a sound they did not use - with the crescent - shaped c.) He carefully delves into the archaeological evidence for the alphabet's origins, describing the oldest known alphabetic inscriptions, dating to about 1800 B.C., which were recently identified among rock carvings at Wadi el - Hol in central Egypt.

Even ancient rock engravings and inscriptions on Egyption sacropgahi depict honeybees as sacred insects!

Hundreds of localities with Rock art and inscriptions dating to different chronological periods.

March 2001: A team of anthropologists gazes in awe at a wall of strange inscriptions, moments before a blast seals them deep within the Colorado rock.

A longer scenic route from I - 40 and Route 53 near Acoma takes you past the forbidding black volcanic flow of El Malpais, through pretty mesa - dotted country and by El Morro National Monument (also known as Inscription Rock).

These fresh water falls are held sacred, and the rocks are decorated with inscriptions by ancient Thai royalty.

Much of the art of earlier cultures — signs and marks on pottery, textiles, and inscriptions and paintings on rock — used simple, geometric and linear forms which might have had a symbolic or decorative purpose.

South Side of Inscription Rock, N. M., 1873.