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In the Tang dynasty, a set of four important qualities for the rocks were recognized.They are: thinness (瘦 shòu), openness (透 tòu), perforations (漏 lòu), and wrinkling (皺 zhòu).
The Grave Creek Stone is a small sandstone disk inscribed on one side with some twenty-five characters, purportedly discovered in 1838 at Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville, West Virginia. If genuine, it could provide evidence of Pre-Columbian writing, but the discovery that the characters can be found in a 1752 book suggests that it is probably ...
A picture stone, image stone or figure stone is an ornate slab of stone, usually limestone, which was raised in Germanic Iron Age or Viking Age Scandinavia, and in the greatest number on Gotland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] More than four hundred picture stones are known today. [ 3 ]
Korean artwork shows scholar paying homage to a special stone – painting with calligraphy by Hô Ryôn, 1885. Suseok (Korean: 수석), also called viewing stones or scholar's stones, is the Korean term for rocks resembling natural landscapes. [1] [2] The term also refers to the art of stone appreciation. [1]
The Altar Stone is similar in both size and placement to other large horizontal blocks in stone circles found in northeast Scotland, the study authors said. These recumbent stone circles have only ...
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The Hattusa Green Stone is a roughly cubic block of nephrite standing in the remains of the Great Temple at Hattusa, capital of the Hittites in the late Bronze Age. Now on the hill above Boğazkale , in the Turkish Province of Çorum , Hattusa is a World Heritage Site .
The Black Stone is seen through a portal in the Kaaba. The Black Stone (Arabic: ٱلْحَجَرُ ٱلْأَسْوَد, romanized: al-Ḥajar al-Aswad) is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.