Sentences with phrase «stone carved animal»
Additional Mayan activities include a visit to Quirigua, an ancient Mayan site with stone carved animal figures and the world's largest Stelae.
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The Stone Age craftsman who made the oldest known comb — a small four - toothed number carved from animal bone some eight thousand years ago — would have no trouble knowing what to do with the bright blue plastic version sitting on my bathroom counter.
Headless human and animal symbols carved into stone in Turkey tell the story of a devastating comet impact that triggered a mini ice age more than 13,000 years ago
Artifacts from that period — the obese human and animal figurines and the phallic symbols carved in stone or bone and modeled in clay — point to the idea that the people had an obsession with the living world and its successful propagation through the descent group or lineage.
The apses often had stone altars (which were frequently carved with spiral or animal designs), carefully plastered floors and walls, and other decorations painted with red ocher, a pigment probably imported from Sicily.
Each one is surrounded by a ring of huge, T - shaped stone pillars, some of which are decorated with carvings of fierce animals.
And a variety of intricately carved animal sculptures — lizards, serpents, eagles, even an oversize stone carving of a flea, with careful attention given to its bloodsucking mouth parts — attest both to the Aztecs» skills as artisans and their abiding interest in the natural world.
In the Azores you will find landscapes of unparalleled beauty, monuments carved in stone expelled by volcanoes, museums that will take you back in time, animals unique in the world, a gastronomy stuffed of intense flavors and people who will receive you with arms wide open.
Winter's End An action oriented level set amongst icy hills blanketed in snow, pierced by stone tablets, carvings of animal totems and ancient symbols.
Imperial eggs, ruby - encrusted brooches, gold and diamond cigarette cases, enameled parasol handles and carved stone animals display the diverse and exquisite designs of Peter Carl Fabergé's craftsmen.
A blow - by - blow account of stone carving in Oxford is an installation by Sean Lynch exploring the work of nineteenth century stone carvers John and James O'Shea, whose naturalistic renditions of animals and plants are still visible in locations in Dublin and Oxford.
His father, a carpenter and building contractor, carved animals from stone — a weighty material very different in spirit from the ethereal refinement of his son's mature style.