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The Treasury seen from the Siq, Petra, 1st Century AD. One of the most elaborate rock-cut tombs in the capital of the Nabatean Kingdom, as most of the surviving buildings and tombs in the city, the facade was carved out of the cliff. This was the first glimpse of Petra on arrival...
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The Ingá Stone, in Brazil, is a large rock famous for its mysterious petroglyphs, carved into its surface. The carvings cover an area of 46 m long and 3.8 m high, featuring representations of animals, fruits, and astronomical features like the constellation Orion and the Milky Way
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The Barber Cup and Crawford Cup, made in 50–100 CE, are the only 2 vessels carved from fluorite that are known to have survived intact from the Roman period. They were discovered during WWI by an Austro-Croatian officer who excavated a Roman tomb near the current Turkish–Syrian border
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The Large-Eyed Stone Figures are carvings found on the island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, part of French Polynesia. Dating to around the 11th century AD, these figures are carved into a stone block and are notable for their large, round eyes and stylized human forms.
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8,000 year old prehistoric obsidian mirrors found in the ruins of the Neolithic settlement known as Çatalhöyük, Turkey, and were made c. 6400 BCE. These are the oldest manufactured mirrors in the world; the convex carving suggest they were also used to light up dark spaces during the day
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