Sentences with word «stele»

By this early date the Maya were already carving stelae on altars, conducting long distance trade, utilizing mathematical and calendrical systems, and constructing monumental architecture.

Scheduled to be on view from September 8 to November 4, 2017, the exhibition will focus on her now complete series Malcolm X Steles which she started in 1969.

El Baúl has a good sampling of pre-Columbian artifacts, including stelae with some of the earliest known inscriptions in all of Mesoamerica.

Explore the temples, pyramids, and stelae at Copán and...

Pieces of decorated sandstone, such as steles as well as lintels and door surrounds, have been discovered at the surface, providing magnificent examples of Meroitic funerary art.

Stelaes found at various other locations were carved and designed, but the ones found at Xunantunich were plain.

The sphinx is part of a renowned international collection that also includes Egyptian mummies, Chinese Buddhist and ancient Greek sculptures, monumental steles from the ancient Maya and evocative African masks.

Before the invention of the printing press, such technologies included a stone stele put in a public place in ancient Babylonia or parchment documents issued in several handwritten copies to English medieval barons.

This shift is evident in the Nevis Stele paintings (2007 — 15), each five feet tall by three feet wide.

Archaeologist Blömer described the depiction: «The basalt stele shows a deity growing from a chalice of leaves.

The ruins are dotted with engraved stelae which document ceremonial life as well as significant events.

The Mayan site of Quiriguá has some of Guatemala's best - preserved stelae.

The Great Plaza is probably the most spectacular part of the Tikal ruins, surrounded by stelae, carved altars, ceremonial buildings, palaces and a ball court.

While my family walked reverently through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, others were playing hide - and - seek and jumping across the tomb - like steles.

How strange that in the space of just one week a book reviewer in the New York Times mentions the «frisson - inducing» discovery only nine years ago of a ninth century B.C. stele referring to the «House of David,» thus issuing «a stony rebuff to those who think that David is a mythical figure,» while another...

How strange that in the space of just one week a book reviewer in the New York Times mentions the «frisson - inducing» discovery only nine years ago of a ninth century B.C. stele referring to the «House of David,» thus issuing «a stony rebuff to those who think that David is a mythical figure,» while another reviewer, writing about Thomas Cahill's new book, raised seriously the question of whether the historical person called Jesus of Nazareth ever existed.

Lutyens» Cenotaph and the Slocum stele suggest that a simple but imposing monument situated in a park - like setting unencumbered by the twin - tower footprints or the documentary baggage of a museum would have been perfectly appropriate at Ground Zero.

In 2014 Visionect entered the digital signage market and Jaka Stele joined the team as chief operating officer.

Additional Mayan activities include a visit to Quirigua, an ancient Mayan site with stone carved animal figures and the world's largest Stelae.

Copan in Honduras is not as grand or imposing as Caracol, but it's beautiful decorated buildings and sculptures, especially the enormous carved stelae make it a must see Mayan site.

You'll also visit the Maler Group complex, which features twin temples, several stelae, and a large altar.

These included the «Entrance Chamber», the «Sinkhole Entrance», the «Stelae Chamber» and the «Main Chamber.»

ATM features burial chambers, Maya artifacts, intact calcified human remains, and slate stelaes that were used for burials.

This shift is evident in the Nevis Stele paintings (2007 — 15).

Along with Caana, structures at Caracol include 24 known stelae, 24 alters, a ball court, reservoirs, causeways, 5 plazas, an astronomic observatory, central acropolis, two ball courts, over 35,000 known buildings and more than 100 tombs.

Exploring the caves will allow you to view large stalactite formations, intact ancient artifacts such as large storage vessels, plates, burial grounds and a mysterious stelae.

Standing figure stele, 3rd century BC — 1st century AD, South Arabian.

They resemble steles, but as monuments to nothing but themselves.

A sculpture by Barbara Chase - Riboud, whose bronze and fabric steles are on view at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York this fall, is divided horizontally, with a fabric skirt seeming to bear the enormous weight of a bronze torso.

A marble stele nine feet tall with a brief poetic inscription and two children carved in relief is enriched with a lion's head spout and basin.

The Merneptah Stele confirms there was a people know as Israel that goes with the time period that the Tanakh said they were there.

The discovery, in the year 1901 - 1902, of a black diorite stele covered with column upon column of cuneiform characters, was an epoch - making event in the study of ancient Babylonia.

These two steles written for high - ranking women are not isolated examples in Sedeinga.

They mapped the grand pyramids, measured the ornate palaces, sketched the hieroglyphs etched into stelae.

A team of scholars translating a unique inscription on a 2,500 - year - old Etruscan stele has discovered the name Uni — an important female goddess.

This fascinating pyramid boasts several plazas and a large selection of classic stelae.

Stylized carvings and paintings of people, animals, and gods, along with sculptured stelae and geometric patterns on buildings, constitute a highly developed style of art.

Your recollection and impression of these stoic stelae temper the slow flow of Rio Dulce and illuminate the vista of Petenchel Laguna as you reflect on your revitalizing Guatemalan adventure.

Certainly to have that much stelae makes Nim Li Punit an important player in the social and political landscape of the ancient Maya.

One reason for this is that fewer stelae and other glyph inscribed monuments were built here as in the Classic Mayan cities of the south.

One of the most picturesque Mayan ruins in Belize, Lamanai features three large pyramids, various restored stelae, and open plazas as well as a small but unique ball court.

The Monument Plaza houses the most important structures including nine famous stelae, the Hieroglyphic Stairway and a ball court.

Quiriguá is home to the Izabal region's tallest stelae, and you'll be able to admire...

An Ethiopian 3 - star hotel located on the outskirts of Axum, along the historic route and with views of the major sites of Axum including the Queen of Sheba's bathing pool and stele field.

Day 4 Fly to Axum, famous for its numerous mysterious monolithic stelae.

Day 5 Return to Addis Ababa via Butajira and visit Tiya Stelae en route.

Even so, there are rare hieroglyphic staircases and carved stelae around the main plaza.