Sentences with phrase «stone stele»

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.

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He also studied the ancient stone tablets, or stelae, from around the pyramids.

Kings filled these cities with lordly stone monuments called stelae and pyramids of gray stone.

Tikal's sprawling urban site contains some of the most impressive Mayan palace, temple, and altar structures - many housing the ancient tombs of kings and important political figures of the time, as well as elaborately carved wooden door lintels and stelae (carved stone shafts).

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

Dating back to as early as 200 B.C., Xunantunich boasts carved stone slabs called stelae containing recordings of important events of Mayan civilization.

Nim Li Punit was probably an astronomical site, and is famous for its 20 tall stones, or stelae, some of which show fascinating carvings.

There are a large number of stelae and stone carved altars at this site, making it an attraction that is well worth exploring.

Exhibits comprise other tablets and fragments, and many replicas — the actual Mesha Stele remains in the Louvre, the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum — in order that the mantle of historical authority may here alight upon these stewards of this assembled text.

With a palette of muted reds, blues, greens, and grays, the works are inspired by Chinese steles — monumental stone slabs carved with religious inscriptions dating back to AD 800.

The American Tour of Roads of Arabia contains around 200 objects, but there is a vast difference between exhibitions of 200 photographs or small paintings and a show like «Roads» with 200 objects, many of which are large stone sculptures and stele.

The block - like forms, looking as if carved in stone, correspond with the contemporaneous vertical, statuesque stelae of the Personnages group of sculptures, and can be seen as representations of people who were close to her but no longer by her side after she left her French homeland for America.