The Gaulish inscription from Montagnac reads αλλετυος καρνονου αλσοεας ( alleteiuos karnonou alisonteas ), with the last word possibly a place name based on alisia, " service-tree " or " rock " ( compare Alesia, Gaulish Alisiia ).

Domitian is also credited on the easternmost Roman evidence known, the rock inscription near Boyukdash mountain, in present-day Azerbaijan.

The European powers then determined to intervene, and authorized the landing in Beirut of a body of French troops under General Beaufort d ' Hautpoul, whose inscription can still be seen on the historic rock at the mouth of Nahr al-Kalb.

An inscription, indeed, cut in the rock near San Felice, speaks about this part of the (" promontory of Venus "; the only case of the use of this name ) as belonging to the city of Circei.

The name " Rekem " was inscribed in the rock wall of the Wadi Musa opposite the entrance to the Siq, but about twenty years ago the Jordanians built a bridge over the wadi and this inscription was buried beneath tons of concrete.

In 1931, the Colter Stone, a rock carved in the shape of a head with the inscription " John Colter " on one side and the year " 1808 " on the other, was discovered in a field in Tetonia, Idaho, which is west of Teton Pass.

* The Minoan Fountain was a rectangular public well hewn in the rock, with a central column ; it formalized the sacred spring in its present 6th century BC form, reconstructed in 166 BC, according to an inscription.

An inscription on one of the tombs declares it to be that of Darius Hystaspis, concerning whom Ctesias relates that his grave was in the face of a rock, and could only be reached by the use of ropes.

The validity of these arguments is currently in doubt, mainly due to the identification of Ptolemy's Leukaristos, located at a latitude similar to that of Kalisz, with the name Laugaritio / Leugaritio certainly referring to the town of Trenčín in Slovakia ( this identification is confirmed by a rock inscription made in the winter of 179 / 180 CE by a Roman military unit, and the biography of the unit's commander, M. Valesius Maximianus, carved on his tomb in Diana Veteranorum in today's Algeria ).

Towards the end of his reign he instituted a coregency with his successor Amenemhet IV, as recorded in a now damaged rock inscription at Konosso in Nubia, which equates Year 1 of Amenemhet IV to either Year 46, 47 or 48 of his reign.

The Latin rock inscription close to Boyukdash mountain in Qobustan, Baku, which mentions Legio XII Fulminata, is the world's easternmost Roman evidence known.

Khufu's serekh name is carved in a rock inscription reporting the " Mefat-travelling in the year after the 13th cattle-count under Hor-Medjedu ".

At the Wadi Maghareh in Sinai a rock inscription depicts Khufu with the double crown.

At the Wadi Maghareh in Sinai a rock inscription contains Khufu's names and titles and reports: " Hor-Medjedu, Khnum-Khuf, Bikuj-Nebu, the great god and smiter of the troglodytes, all protection and life are with him ".

At Wadi Hammamat a rock inscription dates back to the 12th dynasty.

On the same flat outcrop of rock is an incised boar in Pictish style, and an inscription in the ogham script.

A Doric inscription, carved in the rock, attests to the existence of an earlier fortress here during Antiquity.

The " inscription " was later found to be natural formations in the rock.

The Junagadh rock inscription of Skandagupta mentions:

Set both in the 18th century and the present day and centred on the mystery of an inscription on a rock about a death from exposure, the novel seeks to explain time and history in terms of setting and interaction.

For example, the Behistun inscription is an official document of the Achaemenid Empire engraved on native rock at a location in Iran.

Just inside the boundary wall he cut an inscription in Ogham on the two faces of a large rock.

The famous mandala carving and the Tibetan inscription on a rock in village Manthal near Skardo town, which dates back to early 8th century, is one of the best examples of these efforts.

Neatly etched on the rock surface is a pin-men inscription of Ashoka Brāhmī script, more impressive than the much smaller replica positioned outside the entrance of the National Museum in Delhi.

The rock unit is a black shale, and crops out at a number of localities near the town of Field in Yoho National Park.

In the US the first large scale use of cement was Rosendale cement a natural cement mined from a massive deposit of a large dolostone rock deposit discovered in the early 19th century near Rosendale, New York.

* 1961 – A 500, 000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.

He went on to find a similar penetration of volcanic rock through sedimentary rock near the centre of Edinburgh, at Salisbury Crags, adjoining Arthur's Seat: this is now known as Hutton's Section.

Ancient rock engraving showing herds of giraffe, ibex, and other animals in the southern Sahara near Tiguidit, Niger.

However, a study of uranium / lead ratios of zircons from rock sequences in multiple locations in southern China date the extinction to 252. 28 ± 0. 08 Ma ; an earlier study of rock sequences near Meishan in Changxing County of Zhejiang Province, China date the extinction to 251. 4 ± 0. 3 Ma, with an ongoing elevated extinction rate occurring for some time thereafter.

* The Nibelungenlied, an epic poem in Middle High German, tells the saga of Siegfried / Sigurd, who killed a dragon on the Drachenfels ( Siebengebirge ) (" dragons rock "), near Bonn at the Rhine and of the Burgundians and their court at Worms, at the Rhine and Kriemhild's golden treasure, which was thrown into the Rhine by Hagen.

A young black Chicagoan, Eugene Williams, paddled a raft near a Southside Lake Michigan beach into " white territory ", and drowned after being hit by a rock thrown by a young white man.

Taking their names from the story of Lot in the Book of Genesis, " Lot " and " Lot's Wife " are two solitary pillars of rock topping two valleys near Sandy Bay.

A cooperation between the government of Norway and the Global Crop Diversity Trust, the vault is cut into rock near Longyearbyen, keeping it at a natural and refrigerating the seeds to.

The researchers have identified the source as a long rock outcrop called Craig Rhos-y-Felin (), near Pont Saeson in north Pembrokeshire, located from Stonehenge.

There she met rock keyboardist Eric Lambier and drummer Randy Yurko and formed a new band, moving three months later to Bowmanville, near Toronto.

Raiding Ralph's camp, the savages confiscate the glasses and return to their abode near the great rock heap, called Castle Rock.

* June 30 – At the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 die and 26 are injured on a set while the rock group Pearl Jam performs.

On 3 February 1959, a chartered plane transporting the three American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson goes down in foggy conditions near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing all four occupants on board, including pilot Roger Peterson.

Christine McVie ( born Christine Anne Perfect, 12 July 1943, in Bouth, near Ulverston, Lancashire, England ) is an English rock singer, keyboardist, and songwriter.

Later rock paintings and engravings showing hippos being hunted have been found in the mountains of the central Sahara dated 4, 000 – 5, 000 years ago near Djanet in the Tassili n ' Ajjer Mountains.

The chapel was built in 1834 and 1835 near Kastel-Staadt on a rock above the town.

Noddy Holder ( right ) and Dave Hill ( left ) of Slade, near the height of their fame in 1973, showing some of the more extreme glam rock fashions

Rock paintings on cave walls in Africa and eastern Spain show people gathering honey from trees or rock crevices while bees fly around them — cave drawings in Spain, near Valencia.

is a common extrusive igneous ( volcanic ) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.

In some places near the seaward margins of areas with fjords, the ice-scoured channels are so numerous and varied in direction that the rocky coast is divided into thousands of island blocks, some large and mountainous while others are merely rocky points or rock reefs, menacing navigation.