Sentence examples for stone paintings from inspiring English sources

Among the threatened artwork are sculptures and mausoleum carvings in Cyrene, a one-time Greek colony, the Roman-era trading centre of Sabratha, and a desert region that is home to stone paintings or carvings dating back 12,000 years.

Rock paintings and stone and metal implements found in the rivers, valleys, and other areas of Madhya Pradesh indicate that the area has been inhabited since prehistoric times.

Archaeological evidence of settlement in the region includes inhabited rock shelters, rock paintings and engravings, burial places, camps and quarry sites, and stone tools and arrangements.

Early, Middle, and Late Stone Age and Early Iron Age sites are in the province, as well as a number of rock paintings (c. 500 1750 ce).

Just last month, researchers made the startling announcement that Stone Age paintings in Spanish caves were much older than previously thought, from a time when Neanderthals were still alive.

Past Del Rio, there's Seminole Canyon State Park, where you must hike down into the deep canyon to view ancient, indigenous stone wall paintings depicting a people in pilgrimage.

Kineococcus species are commonly found on weathered rock, stone monuments, paintings, desert crust or varnish along with cyanobacteria and fungi which together form biotic crusts, lichens, or endolithic communities (Garrity et al 1996, Gómez-Silva Gómez-Silva Impeti et al 2008, Kuhlman et al 2006, SchabereImperiurtnet et al 2007, Torre et al 2003, Tringe et al 2005).

The show features medieval enamels; medieval, Renaissance and Baroque ivories; wood and stone sculpture; metalwork; paintings; and tapestries.

Although only a few important examples of actual furniture survive, stone carvings, fresco paintings, and models made as funerary offerings present rich documentary evidence.

PARIS — The Ardèche region in south-central France is famous for chestnuts, sheep farming, Stone Age cave paintings and a scenic river.

Little larger than the palm of a hand, they are variously decorated -- inside and out -- with precious stones and miniature paintings.