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- The Cave of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, Me'arat ... The compound, located in the ancient city of Hebron, is the second ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
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- The Longmen Grottoes (ch. 龍門石窟/ 龙门石窟, lóngmén shíkū; ... south of present day Luoyang in Henan province, China. The grottoes ...11 KB (1,501 words) - 02:38, 4 November 2022
- The Ellora caves are ancient Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cave-temple ... The Buddhist caves are the earliest structures, created between the ...8 KB (1,190 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- [[Image:Outline of cave paintings, Altamira.png|thumb|right|300px ... Altamira (Spanish for “high view”) is a cave in Spain famous for ...10 KB (1,634 words) - 08:36, 23 July 2023
- Dambulla Cave Temple (also known as the Golden Temple of Dambulla ... north of Kandy. The largest and best-preserved cave temple complex ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 18:09, 24 January 2024
- The Jenolan Caves are a leading example of impressive caverns in the ... The caves are the most celebrated of several similar groups in the ...14 KB (2,279 words) - 07:48, 3 April 2024
- A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter ... caves are often used for recreation and for the preservation or aging of wine ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- than any other form of rock-cut architecture in the world. ... Rock-cut architecture defines the practice of creating a structure ...16 KB (2,321 words) - 22:03, 4 February 2023
- [[Image:Chauvethorses.jpg|thumb|right|Drawing of horses from Chauvet Cave]] The Chauvet Cave [French: La Grotte Chauvet] or Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 00:45, 5 December 2023
- a mountainous equatorial rainforest setting. The Sarawak chamber, in Gua Nasib ... The park, famous for its caves, has been renown for the expeditions ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 17:58, 12 July 2023
- Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain is the ... The artwork in these caves was well preserved for thousands of years ...25 KB (4,047 words) - 06:22, 18 November 2022
- [[Image:Lascaux 04.jpg|thumb|250px|Lascaux cave painting of aurochs]] France (near Montignac) that is famous for the numerous Paleolithic cave ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- [[Image:Laas Geel cow herd.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Detail of the Laas ... Cave or Rock Paintings are paintings on cave or rock walls and ceilings ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 16:21, 3 December 2023
- famous for his studies of prehistoric cave art, such as that discovered ... Unfortunately, in some cases, such as "The White Lady," ...13 KB (1,739 words) - 17:06, 15 December 2023
- The Bhimbetka rock shelters compose an archaeological site and World ... The Bhimbetka shelters exhibit the earliest traces of human life in ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 03:37, 1 October 2023
- in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, near Guindy. The mount is known locally as ... The Portuguese built the shrine of Mother Mary, a small relic-filled ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 16:21, 8 February 2023
- The Cave of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, Me'arat ... The compound, located in the ancient city of Hebron, is the second ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- is a United States National Park located in the southeastern corner of New ... On October 25, 1923, President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the Carlsbad ...19 KB (2,927 words) - 15:25, 27 November 2023
- monastery complex of twenty-nine rock-cut cave monuments containing paintings ... The caves are located just outside the village of Ajinṭhā ...19 KB (2,978 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- The Russell Cave National Monument is a United States National Monument ... In 1958, the cave and site area–310 acres (1.3 km²) of land–were ...23 KB (3,387 words) - 23:06, 21 October 2023
- Cro-Magnon Man is a name applied to the earliest known European examples ... For all intents and purposes, the Cro-Magnons were anatomically modern ...8 KB (1,081 words) - 00:21, 15 January 2023
- The Elephanta Caves represent the focal point of the Elephanta Island ... Most of the sculptures had been defaced by the Portuguese, who used ...10 KB (1,412 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- than a metaphor and often appeals to the imagination, whereas an analogy ... The allegory is one of the most popular narrative forms in literature ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- Ensifera is a suborder of the order Orthoptera, comprising "long ... designation often is limited to members of the family Tettigoniidae (the ...11 KB (1,512 words) - 12:04, 21 January 2023
- Panthera is a genus of large, wild cats in the mammalian family, Felidae ... The Panthera genus comprises about half of the seven extant species ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- subtropical and tropical fish, belonging to the order Characiformes. Known ... The small size and beautiful colors of many of these fish make them ...10 KB (1,322 words) - 02:06, 13 January 2023
- quốc gia Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng) is one of the world's largest karst ... with the world's longest underground river, as well as the largest ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 23:56, 18 September 2023
- The Paleolithic Age, also known as the Stone Age, encompasses the ... not have records of individual lives or of the achievements of individual ...14 KB (2,116 words) - 06:20, 18 November 2022
- The Mogao Caves, or Mogao Grottoes ( 莫高窟|p=mò gāo kū ) (also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- Province, Thailand. Discovered in 1957, the Ban Chiang Archaeological ... Radiocarbon tests in the 1970s revised that date to 2100 B.C.E. to ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 03:25, 17 September 2023
- Japanese mythology a sun goddess and perhaps the most important Shinto deity ... Amaterasu is seen as the highest manifestation of Kunitokotachi, the ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:45, 24 July 2023
- Karst topography is a three-dimensional landscape shaped by the dissolution ... being English (Jennings, Ch.1 p.1). The international community has ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- Aihole (Kannada ಐಹೊಳೆ) is a town in the Bagalkot district ... The temples fall broadly into two groups, the Kontigudi and Galaganatha ...10 KB (1,455 words) - 06:56, 16 June 2023
- philosopher, a student of Plotinus and the editor of his works. He is ... Most of the known details of the personal life of Porphyry are found ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- The Greater Blue Mountains Area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ... The Area is comprised of seven contiguous national parks and one protected ...15 KB (2,192 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- The Dead Sea Scrolls (Hebrew: מגילות ים המלח) comprise ... The Dead Sea Scrolls are widely acknowledged to be among the greatest ...33 KB (5,119 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- Mammoth Cave National Park is a U.S. National Park in central Kentucky ... The official name of the system is the Mammoth Cave System, though ...40 KB (6,197 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- Woolly rhinoceros, or simply Woolly Rhino, is the common name for ... The woolly rhinoceros appears in the cave paintings of early humans ...11 KB (1,548 words) - 21:32, 28 April 2024
- Cliff-dwelling is the general archaeological term for the habitations ... Cliff-dwellings are found throughout the world and in some cases are ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 22:05, 7 January 2024
- that is similar to a U.S. national park with the exception that the President ... Another difference between a national monument and national park is ...19 KB (2,589 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor rather than the ... Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. He founded ...13 KB (1,795 words) - 07:37, 27 February 2023
- It would not be an exaggeration to say that the distinction between ... ==Motivation for the distinction== There are both common-sense and ...17 KB (2,610 words) - 15:53, 11 August 2023
- Hebron is a city in the southern Judea region of the West Bank, 30 ... The most famous historic site in Hebron sits on the Cave of the Patriarchs ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 15:14, 25 January 2023
- rank") was a great woman of faith and the fore-mother of the Israelites ... Sarah was originally called Sarai. She was born in the major Mesopotamian ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- The Assumption of Moses describes two or more Jewish apocryphal works ... Also called the Testament of Moses, this work begins with a brief ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 05:06, 18 August 2023
- Denisovans are an extinct hominid group more closely related to the ... The issue of whether the Denisovans are a unique species or a subspecies ...32 KB (4,672 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- The Black Hills are a small, isolated mountain range rising from the ... The Hills, which cover an area 125 miles long and 65 miles wide, include ...27 KB (4,267 words) - 18:05, 31 October 2023
- The Gospel of James, also known as the Infancy Gospel of James or ... The document presents itself as written by James the Just, whom the ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 12:08, 24 January 2023
- The Shaolin Monastery or Shaolin Temple ( c=少林寺 |p=Shàolínsì City, Henan Province, of what is now the People's Republic of ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 21:14, 16 June 2023
- Cyberspace is a global domain within the information environment consisting ... ground for communication helps bring the world together, others point ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 02:18, 15 January 2023
- Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite ... The calcite in limestone is produced mainly by marine organisms, many ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 04:10, 29 October 2022
