Then, without knowing why, she found herself running from them, fleeing wildly through the trees, dodging her own shadows until she came to a little hollow in the rocky ground with a big stone in the center behind which she knelt and hid, listening to the madness of her heart and wanting for once to cry.

Its usage is mostly restricted to engravings on stone and jewelry, although inscriptions have also been found on bone and wood.

It was excavated by Spiegelthal in 1854, who found that it covered a large vault of finely cut marble blocks approached by a flat-roofed passage of the same stone from the south.

Pizza -- made with very thin, and sometimes thick, high-rising doughs, with or without cheese, cooked in the oven or a la piedra ( on a stone oven ), and stuffed with numerous ingredients -— is a dish which can be found in nearly every corner of the country.

* 1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey.

The oldest known adhesive, dated to approximately 200, 000 BC, is from spear stone flakes glued to a wood with birch-bark-tar, which was found in central Italy.

On April 11, 1951, the missing stone was found lying on the site of the Abbey's altar.

When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.

Several intact arched stone bridges from the Hellenistic era can be found in the Peloponnese in southern Greece

The Romans also used cement, which reduced the variation of strength found in natural stone.

One of the earliest evidence of Hindu influence in Southeast Asia were stone pillars which bear inscriptions in the Pallava script found in Kutai along the Mahakam River in East Kalimantan, dating to around the second half of the 300s AD.

Recent study shows that the stone tools found at Xiaochangliang site are magnetostratigraphically dated to 1. 36 million years ago.

His original system consisted of the four classical elements found in the ancient Greek traditions ( air, earth, fire and water ), in addition to two philosophical elements: sulphur, ‘ the stone which burns ’, which characterized the principle of combustibility, and mercury, which contained the idealized principle of metallic properties.

Computer controlled music is also found in the performance pieces by the Canadian composer Udo Kasemets such as the Marce ( ntennia ) l Circus C ( ag ) elebrating Duchamp ( 1987 ), a realization of the Marcel Duchamp process piece Erratum Musical using an electric model train to collect a hopper-car of stones to be deposited on a drum wired to an Analog: Digital converter, mapping the stone impacts to a score display ( performed in Toronto by pianist Gordon Monahan during the 1987 Duchamp Centennial ), or his installations and performance works ( e. g. Spectrascapes ) based on his Geo ( sono ) scope ( 1986 ) 15x4-channel computer-controlled audio mixer.

Glebe cairn in Kilmartin Glen in Argyll dates from 1700 BC and has two stone cists inside one of which a jet necklace was found during 19th century excavations.

Diamonds are thought to have been first recognized and mined in India, where significant alluvial deposits of the stone could be found many centuries ago along the rivers Penner, Krishna and Godavari.

At Kuffeir near Bostra in Syria, Burckhardt found stone doors, 9 to.

* The Cippus Perusinus, a stone slab ( cippus ) found at Perugia.

A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building.

The fact that settlers from Norway also settled in the Faroe Islands is proven by a runestone ( see Sandavágur stone ) found in the village of Sandavágur on Vágoy Island.

The first is a type of stone setting found uniquely within the British Isles.

In Monte Alto near La Democracia, Escuintla, giant stone heads and potbellies ( or barrigones ) have been found, dating back to around 1800 BC.

Numerous other sites found around Scotland build up a picture of highly mobile boat-using people making tools from bone, stone and antlers.

The oldest is Yiron in the northern portion of the Israeli Rift, with flint artifacts in a fluviatile deposit below a basalt layer dated at 2. 4 million years old, the oldest stone tools found anywhere outside Africa.

Ubeidiya stone tools were found in the central Rift and are 1. 4 million years old, with a Lower Acheulean industry.

Delphine stood like stone, her eyes alive with hate as she looked down at the sheeted corpse.

Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.

Squatting on our haunches beside the flat stone we broke them on, we were safe behind the high closed gates at the end of the drive: safe from interruption and the observation and possible amusement of the passers-by.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

He piled everything neatly in a corner of the cellar and turned to stare at the blank stone wall.

Thus a man who is butting a stone wall at the office may become unusually aggressive in bed -- the one place he can still be champion.

Hoag descended the stone steps to the street and looked up at the building.

His hands were swinging at his sides, and he passed through the dingy market place with his back straight and, pivoting on his heel, he entered an old stone building.

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.

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.

It is usually just a large block of concrete or stone at the end of the chain.

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.

Ajax at first gets the better of the encounter, wounding Hector with his spear and knocking him down with a large stone, but Hector fights on until the heralds, acting at the direction of Zeus, call a draw: the action ends without a winner and with the two combatants exchanging gifts, Ajax giving Hector a purple sash and Hector giving Ajax a sharp sword.

Abu Bakr hurled the stone at the idol and left the Kaaba.

Many stone reliefs were discovered in the royal palaces at Nimrud ( Kalhu ) and Khorsabad ( Dur-Sharrukin ).

* Weapons, tools and implements ; In stone, clay and bronze, and at the last iron, sometimes richly ornamented or inlaid.

Euan MacKie, recognizing that Thom's theories needed to be tested, excavated at the Kintraw standing stone site in Argyllshire in 1970 and 1971 to check whether the latter's prediction of an observation platform on the hill slope above the stone was correct.

There was an artificial platform there and this apparent verification of Thom's long alignment hypothesis ( Kintraw was diagnosed as an accurate winter solstice site ) led him to check Thom's geometrical theories at the Cultoon stone circle in Islay, also with a positive result.

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.

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.

* c. 200 AD: A stone go board with a 17 × 17 grid from a tomb at Wangdu County in Hebei, China.