The sculpture is believed to have been carved between 3300 and 3100 B.C.
The head, believed to have been carved between A.D. 312 and 325, was discovered by archaeologists in the Trajan markets, the largest of the imperial forums.
The small granite figure of an unidentified scribe carved between 1295 and 1070 B.C. shows a man looking alert and concerned.
A number of the famed Venus figurines, palm-size statuettes carved between 20,000 and 30,000 years ago, depict women with corpulent thighs, buttocks, breasts and bellies, and estimated body mass indexes well over 30.
Kalakaua, a shaded canyon of glass and concrete, carved between high-rise hotels and apartments, is so packed with people and souvenir shops that it seems impossibly far from sky or water.
A stone jar carved between 3650 and 3300 B.C. displays a stunning aptitude at reducing animal form to near abstraction, with a surreal twist that anticipates 20th-century avant-garde art.
What Ms. Ali has learned is the possibility of bridging the deep gap that the Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraq war, among other causes, carved between Muslims and non-Muslims in America.
A Mughal emerald, carved between 1630 and 1650 in India with stylized chrysanthemum, lotus and Mughal poppy flowers, formed the centerpiece of a spectacular Cartier shoulder ornament known as the Collier Bérénice.
The Lewis Chessmen, a trove of 93 pieces found in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis, in Scotland, which are believed to have been carved between 1150 and 1200 A.D., contain queens and bishops.
He sits now, going into Sunday's final, akin to a dormant super volcano, having scored nine runs in two innings since his unbeaten 100 against England in their group opener in Mumbai just over a fortnight ago, a knock of 14 strolled singles, five fours and 11 sixes, carved between long-off and square-leg, with Eoin Morgan's bowlers having no answer.
