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 ...

Unlike all other stelae, the Great Stela was carved on all four sides. It represents a thirteen-storey building with windows and false doors at the foot, both front and back – implying the belief in a ...

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.

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 ...

One of those new films, Carved, is a product of their annual Huluween Film Fest which highlights short horror flicks from up-and-coming filmmakers. Fangoria shared the first images from the ...

The news has spread far beyond the campus. On Sept. 18, the student newspaper for Gettysburg College broke the news that a racial slur had been carved into the body of a swim team member at a ...

But first, keep in mind that carved jack-o-lanterns have a shelf life, so even if you take measures to preserve them, they're going to meet their end eventually. Don't buy your pumpkin too early!

Later, while examining photographs of the Piedras Negras stelae, or commemorative stone ... civilization's traditions by reading the stories carved on walls and painted on pottery.

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 ...