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The prehistoric Tello Obelisk, found in 1919 at Chavín de Huantar in Peru, is a monolith stele with obelisk-like proportions. It is 2.52 metres tall and was carved in a design of low relief with Chavín symbols, such as bands of teeth and animal heads.
The Utah monolith was a metal pillar that stood in a red sandstone slot canyon in northern San Juan County, Utah, United States. The pillar was 3 m (9.8 ft) tall and made of metal sheets riveted into a triangular prism .
Monolith with bull, fox, and crane in low relief at Göbekli Tepe. The density of most stone is between 2 and 3 tons per cubic meter. Basalt weighs about 2.8 to 3.0 tons per cubic meter; granite averages about 2.75 metric tons per cubic meter; limestone, 2.7 metric tons per cubic meter; sandstone or marble, 2.5 tons per cubic meter.
A monolith is a geological feature consisting of a single massive stone or rock, such as some mountains. Erosion usually exposes the geological formations, which are often made of very hard and solid igneous or metamorphic rock .
Monolith Weight (in t) Comment ~650 BC Dedication of Nikandre [5] Delos, Greek isles: Figure: 0.25 ~650 BC Fortification wall [5] Leontinoi, Sicily: Wall blocks 1.75 ~640 BC Temple of Poseidon [5] Isthmus, Greek mainland: Wall blocks 0.5 ~630 BC Temple A [5] Prinias, Crete: Frieze slab: 0.5 ~ 610–590 BC Sounion Kouros [5] Sounion, Greek ...
Pancha Rathas monolith rock-cut temple, late 7th century Monolithic architecture describes buildings which are carved, cast or excavated from a single piece of material, historically from rock. The most basic form of monolithic architecture is a rock-cut building , such as the monolithic churches of Ethiopia built by the Zagwe dynasty , or the ...
This monolith is the latest to appear around the world since at least 2020 when a nearly 12-foot structure was found deep in Utah's desert and vanished days later, manifesting into a pandemic-era ...
The unfinished obelisk in its quarry at Aswan, 1990. The obelisk and wider quarry were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, as part of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae" (despite the quarry site being neither Nubian, nor between Abu Simbel and Philae). [2]