It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.

This bridge is also historically significant as it is the world's oldest open-spandrel stone segmental arch bridge.

With the span of, the Solkan Bridge over the Soča River at Solkan in Slovenia is the second largest stone bridge in the world and the longest railroad stone bridge.

Meanwhile engineers repaired a stone bridge across the Nebel, and constructed five additional bridges or causeways across the marsh between Blenheim and Oberglauheim.

The Euphrates flowed through the center of the city, spanned by a beautiful stone bridge.

On the other hand, the statement " A bridge crosses the Styx at Limbo " has the same form, but while in the first case we understand a real bridge in the real world made of stone or brick, what " existence " would mean in the second case is less clear.

There is a memorial outside the Olympic stadium in Munich in the form of a stone tablet at the bridge linking the stadium to the former Olympic village.

He linked his two buildings with an arched stone screen, Caröe Bridge, along Pembroke Street in a late Baroque style, the principal function of which was to act as a bridge by which undergraduates might cross the Master's forecourt at first-floor level from Pitt Building to New Court without leaving the College or trespassing in what was then the Fellows ' Garden.

A bridge could be of wood, stone, or both.

These larger bridges were built with stone and had the arch as its basic structure ( see arch bridge ).

There is currently a memorial ledger stone in the choir of the Cathedral, as well as a stone plaque on the bridge where his remains were allegedly thrown into the Soar.

" On the ride into battle his spur struck the bridge stone of the Bow Bridge ; legend has it that, as his corpse was being carried from the battle over the back of a horse, his head struck the same stone and was broken open.

One element from Yesteryear that has become canon by depiction within Star Trek: The Original Series is the Vulcan city of ShiKahr, depicted in a background scene wherein Kirk, Spock and McCoy walk across a natural stone bridge ( first depicted in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ) in the remastered " Amok Time ".

No earlier evidence of human occupation has been found, but the island almost certainly formed part of the land bridge used for the settlement of Australia and New Guinea by at least 40, 000 BC There is no evidence of Homo erectus having reached Sulawesi ; crude stone tools first discovered in 1947 on the right bank of the Walennae river at Berru, which were thought to date to the Pleistocene on the basis of their association with vertebrate fossils, are now thought to date to perhaps 50, 000 BC

* Triple Bridge, a stone arch bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia

The Wilson Bridge ( known locally as the ' stone bridge '), carried a water main which supplied the city ; the bridge was dynamited to slow the progress of the German advance.

They followed him into the rain and across to the squat stone building fifty feet to the rear.

Today the cross, which is a replacement, is about 3 feet 4 inches ( 1 m ) tall and 1 foot 8 inches ( 0. 5 m ) across at the crosspiece, and it has its base in a socket stone which rests on a pedestal of granite blocks that raises the total height of the cross to 7 ft ( 2. 1 m ).

* Mexican Dam – 1860's stone dam across the Carson River

This stone in Queens, New York, located across from the John Bowne House commemorates the place where George Fox preached a sermon on 7 June 1672.

ceramics and polished stone tools appeared, found spread across Kazakhstan steppes, river valleys, and mountains.

Gaunt's Strong Tower is so named for being entirely vaulted in stone across all its floors, an unusual and robust design.

Formerly little more than a gap in the customs wall, it was replaced by a much grander affair consisting of two matching Doric-style stone gate-houses, like little temples ( a nod to Friedrich Gilly perhaps ), facing each other across Leipziger Straße.

The stone arch came into extensive use in the ancient Roman period and in variant forms could be used to span spaces up to 140 feet ( 43 m ) across.

These additions were removed when the stone was cleaned in 1999, revealing the original dark grey tint of the rock, the sparkle of its crystalline structure, and a pink vein running across the top left corner.

Within this circle stood five trilithons of dressed sarsen stone arranged in a horseshoe shape across with its open end facing north east.

* Megalithic tombs, multichambered, and dolmens, single-chambered, were graves with a huge stone slab stacked over other similarly large stone slabs ; they have been discovered all across Europe and Asia and were built in the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.

The location of the Templo Mayor was rediscovered in the early 20th century, but major excavations did not take place until 1978-1982, after utility workers came across a massive stone disc depicting the nude dismembered body of the moon goddess Coyolxauhqui.

The maritime portion of Venice has no roads as such, being composed almost entirely of narrow footpaths, and laid out across islands connected by staired stone footbridges, making transportation impossible by almost anything with wheels.

Telford also undertook highway works in the Scottish Lowlands, including of new roads and numerous bridges, ranging from a 112 ft ( 34 m ) span stone bridge across the Dee at Tongueland in Kirkcudbright ( 1805 – 1806 ) to the 129 ft ( 39 m ) tall Cartland Crags bridge near Lanark ( 1822 ).

Asterisms are best visible with a single-light source, and move across the stone as the light moves or the stone is rotated.

* Transom ( architectural ), a bar of wood or stone across the top of a door or window

Walkers who stray from footpaths may climb over fences or dry stone walls rather than looking out for the stiles that mark the course of footpaths across farmland.

A stone causeway of about 19 miles led across stagnant and foul-smelling pools blocked from the sea by sand dunes.

Mortimer's uncle, Roger Mortimer de Chirk finally died in prison, but Mortimer managed to escape the Tower in August 1323, making a hole in the stone wall of his cell and then escaping onto the roof, before using rope ladders provided by an accomplice to get down to the River Thames, across the river and then on eventually to safety in France.

He asked the Phoenix to help him by lending its energy to project a stone pillar ( which resembled a lighthouse ) across the multiverse.

Discovered by an international team led by Shannon McPherron, they are the oldest evidence of stone tool use ever found anywhere in the world.

Irregular in plan and now in ruins, it comprises a partially roughcast rendered rubble limestone enclosing wall with a cut stone segmental-headed entrance to the east and is situated to the south of the River Shannon, adjacent to the bridge.

The curb was a line of stone laid edgewise in the dirt and tilted this way and that by frost in the ground or the roots of trees.

Opposite every gate was a hitching post or a stone carriage-step, set with a rusty iron ring for tying a horse.

He was not stone.

The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.

A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.

Harold indicated the photograph on the wall and asked what church the stone sculpture was in.

He didn't seem to think that attaching a pegboard to a stone wall was much of a problem and he tossed off the building of the worktable equally lightly.

At the same time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr. Blatz was usually standing in his line of vision and it all seemed so simple that he didn't like to disclose his ignorance.

In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked up in Bombay, and occasionally, to make merit, my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a few pennies in its lap.

She was also stone deaf in her right ear.

It was silent in the stone alley.

The Greeks gave to him the name αγυιεύς agyieus as the protector god of public places and houses who wards off evil, and his symbol was a tapered stone or column.

The houses were built of unmortared stone, which means that no cement or mortar was used to hold the stones together.

Throughout ancient and medieval history, most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans, such as stone masons and carpenters, rising to the role of master builder.

At the cemetery in what is now the district of Pullach stood a memorial stone which was mentioned as recently as 1967, but which is no longer at the site.

The suffering of ten unknown victims of the camp was recorded on the stone.

It was a controversial design at the time for the bold forms of the undulating stone facade and wrought iron decoration of the balconies and windows, designed largely by Josep Maria Jujol, who also created some of the plaster ceilings.

The death of André-Marie Ampère occurred decades before his new science was canonized as the foundation stone for the modern science of electromagnetism.

Pliny is presenting an archaic view, as in his time amber was a precious stone brought from the Baltic at great expense, but the Germans, he says, use it for firewood, according to Pytheas.

The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the river Achates () sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.

Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.

As a result, Sumer and Akkad had a surplus of agricultural products, but was short of almost everything else, particularly metal ores, timber and building stone, all of which had to be imported.

In the second account given by the Thebans, when Alcmene died, she was turned from human form to a stone.