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Gripsholm, Strängnäs, Södermanland, Sweden, 1978. Old runestone in the park of Gripsholm.
Marker indicating spot where Captain Lewis got farthest on the Marias River on the Blackfeet Reservation in northern Montana
12 24 2014 Entrance of Barabar Caves, oldest man-made caves built by cutting these granite hills in Bihar by the Mauryan Empire of Magadh Jahanabad, Bihar, India
Detail in Orta San Giulio, Italy
Wheel and footprints petroglyphs on a cliff
Jewish cemetry with remembrace stone s on a cenotaph.
On a cloudy day in early Autumn, two bikes are parked beside a granite marker indicating the Mason Dixon Line, in a lush green forest along the Great Allegheny Passage recreation trail in Pennsylvania.
Lexington battlefield memorial plaque in granite. Engraved granite with selective focus showing Lexington and the April 19 1775 date, a sacred place of the start of the American revolution.
Kempton, Germany.Oldest German town with old Roman ancient city ruins.
View across the roman gardens in the centre of Chester, UK.  People can be seen on the promenade
A stone plaque at Klosterruine Heisterbach detailing the history of Herz-Jesu-Kapelle, once used as a mortuary for the Order of Cellitinnen sisters.
A special tribunal (or pie powder court) meted out justice for serious crimes at this spot, the last hanging being on 3 February 1820 when busking bagpipe player Duncan Livingstone was convicted of killing his 10-year-old assistant. The justice tree was variously known as the grief tree, gallows tree or just 'the tree'. Livingstone's body was interred beneath Rochester Castle's walls.
Jelling, Denmark, 15 July 2019:View of the famous danish landmark the Jelling Rune stones, and their protective glass case. It is an important historical site protected by Unesco.
225km marker on the banks of the Rhine River at Breisach, Germany
Close up view of runestone with inscription from the 1000s AD. Sweden.
The holy land in Israel and Palestine was under the protection of Templar Knights and their symbol is spread throughout the nation
Old medieval image stone from iron age, viking age on island Gotland
The Obelisk of Theodosius  is the Egyptian obelisk of pharaoh Tutmoses III erected in the Hippodrome of Constantinople  in  Istanbul by the Roman emperor Theodosius I.  Carved from pink granite, it was originally erected at the Temple of Karnak in Luxor during the reign of Tuthmosis III in about 1490 BC.  Only the top section survives, and it stands today where Theodosius placed it, on a marble pedestal. The obelisk is about 3,500 years old.. Istanbul, Turkey.
Aland Islands, Bomarsund - June 12, 2023. Location of the Russian fortress Bomarsund was located on the Åland Islands: ruins, artifacts, memorial.
Gravestone for the social democratic Prime Minister Vilhelm Buhl (1881 - 1954) and his wife Thyra Buhl (1880 - 1959) in Western Cemetery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Stone with engraving of Cantons Aargau and Thurgau at hiking trail Swiss path on a cloudy spring day. Photo taken May 22nd 2023, Sisikon, Switzerland.
The ten commandments have been carved onto these pieces on granite stone at Buckland Beacon in 1928 to celebrate parliaments rejection on the then new book on common prayer.
Ancient boundary stone on border of Sweden and Norway
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Stone inscriptions on the gentle slopes of the steppe coast of Dzhangul in the western Crimea, Tarkhankut
Close up detail sea defence showing carved straight lines in a rock boulder.
small rune stone in Uppsala, Sweden
Camino de Santiago, pilgrims scallop symbol carved on stone tiled flooring. Galicia, Spain.
Old cracked rune stone from Sweden with red runes in the shape of a snake
Chalan Kanoa / Charan, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CMNI): the Ten Commandments  in two tablets in front of the Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral. You shall have no other God's before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy. Honour your father and mother. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shall not bear false witness. You shall not covet.
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