At Stone Mountain, the carving was a shallow relief (although ... which had been used in ancient Greece, consisting of an angle and two measurements. On the top of the model head he created ...

A MYSTERIOUS stone carved nearly 1,700 years ago has been unearthed in a region rich with Biblical history, where Jesus is said to have walked on water. The volcanic slab, inscribed with Ancient ...

If you’ve ever seen the Stone Mountain carving of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson in Georgia, you’ll never forget it. I saw it as a boy, having no idea what it meant or ...

From inexplicable stone carvings to perplexing ... Located at the base of Hidden Mountain in New Mexico, the Los Lunas Decalogue Stone bears an ancient Hebrew inscription of the Ten Commandments.

The so-called rock art in the Tassili n’Ajjer National Park mountain ... The stone carvings here depict those great beasts: ...

which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’. The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods. The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD.

Spread across 3,200 acres, Stone Mountain Park boasts a variety of attractions. The Confederate Memorial Carving is the most famous (some might say infamous) part of the park. (As calls for the ...