The largest stone carving in the world!
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Topic: The largest stone carving in the world!
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Subject: The largest stone carving in the world!
Date Posted: 05-Apr-2009 at 08:30
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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 By: Temujin
Date Posted: 05-Apr-2009 at 19:30
| what do you mean by large & carving. do you know all those artificial caves in India? |
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 06-Apr-2009 at 04:34
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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 By: Temujin
Date Posted: 06-Apr-2009 at 19:13
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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 |
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 07-Apr-2009 at 13:27
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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?
http://travel.mapsofindia.com/travel-mahabalipuram/tourist-attractions.html - http://travel.mapsofindia.com/travel-mahabalipuram/tourist-attractions.html : Mahabalipuram is renowned for its sculpted reliefs, rathas and the magnificent Shore Temple. Among the reliefs, Arjuna's Penance is fascinating. It is a colossal art form, 27 meters long and 9 meters high and is perhaps the world's largest sculpted bas-relief.
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 By: Reginmund
Date Posted: 07-Apr-2009 at 14:00
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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 By: Temujin
Date Posted: 07-Apr-2009 at 20:02
Ajanta and Ellora in the first place, particularly Ellora... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellora_Caves |
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 08-Apr-2009 at 20:03
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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 By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 30-May-2012 at 08:00
Some other pics of this huge ancient carving:
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Posted By: opuslola
Date Posted: 13-Jan-2014 at 16:28
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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 ------------- http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/history/ |