Its transparent grid defers to the pillar-and-architrave opacity of the ancient stone building without mimicking it.
The remnants of an ancient stone prayer circle stood before me, sunken and eroded, but still visible after an estimated 5, 000 years.
But the cultural relics police were not so amused when Carey laid down on top of an ancient stone carving.
These include a beaker pottery fragment, Roman ceramics and ancient stone hammers.
Many of those who live among the island's ancient stone walls and wisteria see the wave of outsiders as a threat to their rural ambience.
Tintagel's claim to being linked to King Arthur became more solid after an ancient stone bearing a 6th Century inscription similar to the name Arthur was unearthed at Tintagel Castle in 1998.
Ancient people called stone one of the ten longevity symbols.
In one episode, after commenting on the typical gripes about bedroom size in a contemporary home on Lesbos, Ms. Robinson turns to her agent, bemused: "The other thing that slightly worries me is the ruins, for want of a better word, " she says, referring to an ancient-looking stone wall in disrepair in an adjacent lot.
He uncovers a French plot to infiltrate the museum and snatch the Rosetta Stone (the ancient artefact that provides the key to Egyptian hieroglyphs) in order to return it not to Egypt but to France, which first discovered and translated it.
In ancient Egypt, pairs of tapering stone towers called pylons marked the entrances of temples.
Of all the mass media, from ancient official or personal inscriptions on stone to today's satellite broadcasts, those printed on paper have had the most profound influence.
Rather than compete with his peers for trendy new art, hedge-fund manager Michael Steinhardt and his wife, Judy, are building several collections around comparatively obscure niches like ancient Peruvian feather ponchos, Cycladic stone figures and 15th-century rugs.
Following my small walking group, I strode across the hilltop, away from this ancient site of pilgrimage and across the stone-pitted flank of the hill.
Yale economist William Nordhaus examined the history of lighting technologies, from open fires and stone animal fat lamps in ancient times to modern incandescent and fluorescent bulbs.
The site of the ancient city, which is carved into rose-red stone, dates back 2, 000 years and is Jordan's top tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year.
It was here that two years ago archeologists announced the discovery of a large stone which Buddhists believe was placed by an ancient king as a monument to the birthplace of the Buddha.
Highlights of its vast collection are the ancient Egyptian mummies, its Roman and Greek antiquities, the Rosetta Stone and the Anglo-Saxon treasures of Sutton Hoo.
And even though it's been a very long time since the first knives were crafted out of stone, we haven't given up on that ancient manufacturing technique.
Then, in the summer of 1669, came Louis's order to dismantle the ancient lodge and build a grand new palace, based upon the unfinished stone envelope.
John Sheriff, an investigator with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland, said it was impossible to date the stone precisely but it is very likely to be neolithic or Bronze Age, and could "easily" be 4, 000 years old.
The ancient Egyptians used copper saw blades more than 5, 000 years ago to cut both wood and stone.
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