Completed in just three months, de Weldon's cast stone monument was erected in Washington, D.

WSJ: Original Iwo Jima monument coming to NYC auction

We will be able to say not only why but when the first stone monument was built.

BBC: Excavation starts at Stonehenge

Today, the shrine is a bare stone monument, with the relics of St David kept safe in a casket in the cathedral.

BBC: Pilgrims' progress for St David shrine

The hubbub about a calamity occurring comes from a Mayan stone carving called monument 6, made in 700 A.D.

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Backstage, Michael Jackson songs were being played in tribute, and fans talked of an impromptu memorial for the late singer at the "Stone Circle, " a neolithic monument in the grounds of the venue.

CNN: Michael Jackson: The world pays tribute to King of Pop

He worked for 10 years to have the monument, which includes a stone from Hiroshima's ruins, installed at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire.

BBC: England

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.

BBC: By Religious Affairs Correspondent Jane Little