Monoliths

ancient Egyptian monumental sculpture

thumb|330px|Moai facing inland at Ahu Tongariki, restored by Chilean archaeologist Claudio Cristino in the 1990s

thumb|One of the two Luxor Obelisks, on the [[Place de la Concorde in Paris; a red granite monolithic column, high, including the base, which weighs over .]] thumb|Lateran Obelisk in Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano, [[Rome. With its height of (with the base and the cross it reaches 45.70 m) it is the largest standing ancient monolithic obelisk in the world.]]

thumb|Niapiskau island, limestone monoliths, Gulf of St. Lawrence, [[Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve, Canada]] thumb|Uluru, [[Northern Territory, Australia, is often referred to as the biggest monolith. While the surrounding rocks were eroded, the rock survived as sandstone strata making up the surviving Uluru 'monolith'.]] thumb|Monolithos, Greece|Monolithos fortress on [[Rhodes, Greece]] thumb|Landsat 7 image [[Brandberg Mountain, Namibia]] thumb|Pedra da Gávea|Gavea Rock, a monolith next to the sea, near [[Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]] A monolith is a geological feature consisting of a

Roman triumphal column in Alexandria, Egypt

thumb|upright|Trilithon at Stonehenge

thumb|200px|right|A vishap A vishapakar () also known as vishap stones, vishap stelae, "serpent-stones", "dragon stones", are characteristic monoliths found in large numbers in the Armenian Highlands, in natural and artificial ponds, and other sources of water. They are commonly carved from one piece of stone, into cigar-like shapes with fish heads or serpents. Supposedly they are images of vishaps, a water dragon of Armenian folklore. There are about 150 known extant vishap stelae, of which 90 are found in Armenia.

former structure of unknown origin in Utah

Jain sculpture in Shravanbelagola, India

monolith in Baalbek

thumb|Map of the Savandurga area Savandurga is a hill 60 km west of Bengaluru, Karnataka, off the Magadi road in India. It is the largest monolith hills in Asia. The hill rises to 1226 m above mean sea level and forms a part of the Deccan Plateau. It consists of peninsular gneiss, granites, basic dykes, and laterites. The Arkavathi river passes nearby through the Thippagondanahalli reservoir and towards Manchanabele dam.

buildings carved or excavated from a single material, usually rock

8th-century rock cut stone temple and ruins in Masrur–Lahalpur Himachal Pradesh

Rock-cut tomb located in Silwan, Jerusalem

series of volcanic-stone monoliths from the area of Ikom, Cross River State, Nigeria.

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ancient stone monument

church made up of single block of stone

thin-shell structure cast in a one-piece form

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