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The stone, showing just two complete words written in the Square Hebrew alphabet, [2] [3] was carved above a wide depression cut into the inner face of the stone. [4] The first word is translated as "to the place" and the second word "of trumpeting" or "of blasting" or "of blowing", giving the phrase "To the Trumpeting Place". The subsequent ...
Kurgan stelae [a] or Balbals (Ukrainian: балбал, most probably from Turkic word balbal meaning "ancestor" or "grandfather" [3]) are anthropomorphic stone stelae, images cut from stone, installed atop, within or around kurgans (i.e. tumuli), in kurgan cemeteries, or in a double line extending from a kurgan.
On March 22, 1980, the monument was unveiled by congressman Doug Barnard before an audience of between 200 and 300 people. [13] [2] At the unveiling, the Master of Ceremonies read a message to the gathered audience: In order to avoid debate, we the sponsors of the Georgia Guidestones have a simple message for human beings, now and for the future.
For centuries, travelers to Persepolis, located in Iran, had noticed carved cuneiform inscriptions and were intrigued. [5] Attempts at deciphering Old Persian cuneiform date back to Arabo-Persian historians of the medieval Islamic world, though these early attempts at decipherment were largely unsuccessful.
The Behistun Inscription (also Bisotun, Bisitun or Bisutun; Persian: بیستون, Old Persian: Bagastana, meaning "the place of god") is a multilingual Achaemenid royal inscription and large rock relief on a cliff at Mount Behistun in the Kermanshah Province of Iran, near the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, established by Darius the Great (r.
— The word padam, pronounced PAD-dahm, which comes from Kylie Minogue's summertime hit “Padam Padam,” which refers to the sound of a heartbeat. — Bharat, pronounced BUH-ruht, an ancient ...
The tradition of Kapaemahu, like all pre-contact Hawaiian knowledge, was orally transmitted. [11] The first written account of the story is attributed to James Harbottle Boyd, and was published by Thomas G. Thrum under the title “Tradition of the Wizard Stones Ka-Pae-Mahu” in the Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1907, [1] and reprinted in 1923 under the title “The Wizard Stones of Ka-Pae ...
The Paralympic Phryge has one prosthetic leg, and it has the word “Bravo” written in Braille on the back, as well as a gold, silver or bronze medal sewn into the belly, according to the ...