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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova: [QB] [IMG]http://www.ethiovisit.com/attractions/images/axum-obelisk-2.jpg[/IMG] "The early Askumites built in stone. They erected massive carved monoliths over the graves of their leaders (one was 33 meters long and weighed over 700 tonnes, arguably the largest single piece of worked stone ever hewn." --John Reader, 1998. Africa: The Biography of the continent. pg 208). "Perhaps the best -known symbols of the Aksumites' particular ideas and style are the great carved monoliths, some of which still stand, erected to commemorate their dead rulers; they also record the considerable skill of the Aksumite quarrymen, engineers, and stone-carvers, being in some cases among the largest single stones ever employed in ancient times." --Stuart Munro-Hay 1991. Askum: An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity “The exquisitely carved monolithic stelae dating from the 3rd and 4th centuries AD are unique masterpieces of human creative genius. “ UNESCO World Heritage citation 1980 [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Walls_of_BENIN.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BEHWJJyQwO8/WRP0D7absMI/AAAAAAAAC_Q/L079YWSYqVgpPK-_TnkdCvn6dYY1ih5nQCLcB/s1600/connah_benin_arthworks1.jpg[/IMG] "an intricate network of over 16,000 kilometers of banks and ditches (iya) enclosed a 4000 kilometer cluster of community lands- a vast legacy on earth.. The earthworks run four to five times longer than the Great Wall of China, and involve moving more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops." --PJ Darling, A Legacy in Earth- Ancient Benin and Ishan, Southern Nigeria in: Historical Archaeology in Nigeria, 1998. ed k. Weaver. p143 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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