An inscription on a stone built into the wall of a summer house in Lancarffe furnishes proof of a settlement in Bodmin in the early Middle Ages.

There, in October or November, 1485, near the falls of Ielala, he left an inscription engraved on the stone which testifies of its passage and that of his men: " Aqui chegaram os navios do esclarecido rei D. João II de Portugal-Diogo Cão, Pero Anes, Pero da Costa.

The best-preserved Latin inscription surviving from the Greek East, the edict survives in many versions, on materials as varied as wood, papyrus, and stone.

The Younger Futhark inscription on the stone bears a commonly seen memorial dedication, but is followed by an encoded runic sequence that has been described as " mysterious ," and " an interesting magic formula which is known from all over the ancient Norse world.

Its king Chandrabhanu used it as a base to attack Sri Lanka in the 11th century, an event noted in a stone inscription in Nagapattinum in Tamil Nadu and in the Sri Lankan chronicles, Mahavamsa.

His grave was unmarked until 1966 when a stone was erected with the inscription Kurt Schwitters – Creator of Merz.

The stone inscription tells us that, the kirants probably ruled Nepal about 1000 years ago.

Egyptologists use the word for texts and representations inscribed in stone that have been scraped away, either completely or partially, often with a plaster filling being applied, and then a new inscription carved on top.

In Phrygia a number of funerary stone inscriptions use the term Chrestians, with one stone inscription using both terms together, reading: " Chrestians for Christians ".

In 1789 the stone was visited by King George III along with his queen and an inscription was added to the stone commemorate the visit.

The terms of this treaty, including the fixed borders between the two countries, are recorded in a bilingual inscription on a stone pillar outside the Jokhang temple in Lhasa.

On 11 November 1985, Blunden was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey The inscription on the stone was written by fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen.

The inscription on the stone is a quotation from the work of a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen.

An engraving on an eye stone of onyx with an inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II

Their eighteenth-century maul with its 1827 inscription claiming that it was used by Wren for the foundation stone of St. Pauls, belonging to the Lodge and on display in the Freemasons ' Grand Museum, corroborates the story, which is debatable mainly because it would have been in the interests of the Lodge and the Craft to fabricate it.

The inscription on the memorial stone reads:

The inscription on the stone was written by a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen.

The inscription on the stone was written by a fellow war poet, Wilfred Owen.

Soon after, they would find themselves before a stone portal, the ossuary entry, with the inscription Arrête!

In 1998, excavations discovered the " Arthur stone " which has added to Tintagel's Arthurian lore though historians do not believe the inscription refers to King Arthur himself.

The inscription can be read as ' Aelnat fecit hanc crucem pro anima sua ' ( Ælnat made this cross for good of his soul ) ( the back of the stone has the names of the four evangelists ): the name of this man is Saxon ( together with Alfwy mentioned in 1086 he is the only Anglo-Saxon recorded in connection with the area ).

Transcription, in the context of cuneiform, is the process in which an epigraphist makes a line art drawing to show the signs on a clay tablet or stone inscription in a graphic form suitable for modern publication.

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.