Today, it is noted for its beautiful carved stelae sculpted from high-quality limestone. The first description of Copán appeared in a letter to Philip II, King of Spain, dated March 8 ...

The site contains 36 monuments, including 32 carved stelae covered with symbols, most of which are difficult to decipher. They are the remains of an ancient Ethiopian culture whose age has not yet ...

The stela predominantly rests on slabs, presumably pushed underneath the monolith for preservation purposes after it had tumbled. Unlike all other stelae, the Great Stela was carved on all four sides.

At the extremes of the bridge there are two stone stelae, one recording the history ... Lining the bridge are two rows of carved white marble balustrades topped by posts carved with figures ...

It also had hundreds of beautifully carved tombstone-like blocks called stelae. Using the inscriptions on them, scientists reconstructed Tikal’s history until its fall in the ninth century.

Stelae Technologies is a company based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, specialising in the enterprisetech sector. Founded in 2002, it now employs 6 individuals.

Starting 3,000 years ago, those Indigenous people carved vast figures of animals, humans and objects on the desert’s slopes. Known as geoglyphs, the specimens at Alto Barranco in the Tarapacá ...

In this feature, you can actually "read" a passage of glyphs carved into an ancient Maya stela, or dedicatory stone monument. You can both read the ancient Maya (transcribed using the Roman ...