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Cyrus Shahmiri
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Topic: The largest stone carving in the world! Posted: 05-Apr-2009 at 08:30 |
Farhadtarash, a stone carving dating from the 7th century BC on Behistun, a UNESCO world heritage monument, it is 180-m long and 33-m high, the original height was about 70 meters.
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Posted: 05-Apr-2009 at 19:30 |
what do you mean by large & carving. do you know all those artificial caves in India?
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Posted: 06-Apr-2009 at 04:34 |
I said carving, not digging, those artificial caves in India are certainly not as large as 40 km long, 300 m deep ancient qanats of Iran.
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Posted: 06-Apr-2009 at 19:13 |
what do you mean by digging, they're carved out of massive rock, not some earthen stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rock-cut_architecture
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Posted: 07-Apr-2009 at 13:27 |
Which one do you mean? They seem to be even smaller than Achaemenid rock-cut tombs at Naqsh-i-Rustam.
Do you mean Arjuna's Penance in India?
It means it's height is 2 meters less than the height of a gate of an Achaemenid rock-cut tomb:
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Posted: 07-Apr-2009 at 14:00 |
The Achaemenid tombs look impressive, but I can't even tell what the carvings on the first picture are supposed to be. I see something is cut into the rock.
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Posted: 07-Apr-2009 at 20:02 |
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
Which one do you mean? They seem to be even smaller than Achaemenid rock-cut tombs at Naqsh-i-Rustam.
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Ajanta and Ellora in the first place, particularly Ellora... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellora_Caves
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Posted: 08-Apr-2009 at 20:03 |
Temujin, those are just some cave temples, of course some of them like Kailash Temple are really large, you can compare them with those Achaemenid rock-cut tombs or rock-cut tombs of Petra in Jordan, but not Farhadtarash, I think you can't imagine how large it is.
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Posted: 30-May-2012 at 08:00 |
Some other pics of this huge ancient carving:
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Posted: 13-Jan-2014 at 16:28 |
I would suggest that this is nothing more than a giant
quarry. One can see the support holds above the upper
horizontal line for the quarry workers to make their
incisions and create a reason for parts of this stone
to collapse below. Now, for the reason for them to quarry
this stone is the real question.
Ron
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