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Longmen Grottoes
The Longmen Grottoes and Buddhist shrines are China's largest and most impressive collection of art dating from the late Northern Wei Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty (316-907). These works are all Buddhist in theme and represent the pinnacle of Chinese stone carving.
Kakadu National Park
This unique archaeological and ethnographic reserve, located in the Northern Territory, has been inhabited continuously for over 40,000 years. Cave paintings, rock engravings and archaeological sites record the skills and lifestyles of the people who inhabited the area, from prehistoric hunter-gatherers to the Aboriginal people who still live there. It is an example of a unique complex of ecosystems, including tidal flats, floodplains, lowlands and plateaus, providing habitat for a variety of rare or endemic plant and animal species.
Rock Carvings in Tanum
The rock carvings of Tanum in northern Bohuslän are a unique artistic achievement not only because of their rich variety of themes (depicting humans and animals, weapons, ships and other subjects), but also because of their cultural and temporal unity. They reveal a great deal about the lives and beliefs of the peoples of Bronze Age Europe and are of great quality.
Dazu Rock Carvings
The steep hillsides of the Dazu area contain a series of rock carvings dating from the 9th to the 13th century. These carvings are notable not only for their beauty but also for the variety of themes (both secular and religious) that reflect the daily lives of the Chinese people at the time. They are outstanding evidence of the harmonious integration of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism.
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape
The Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape covers three areas of a rocky megalithic plateau in the semi-desert region of central Azerbaijan and features more than 6,000 rock engravings, testifying to 40,000 years of rock art. The site also features remains of inhabited caves, settlements and tombs, all of which reflect intensive human use by the region's inhabitants during the Wet Period following the last Ice Age, from the Upper Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. The site covers an area of 537 hectares and is part of the larger Gobustan Conservation Area.
SGang Gwaay
The village of Nans Dins is located on an island off the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii). The remains of houses and carved burial and memorial posts illustrate the art and way of life of the Haida people. The site commemorates the living culture of the Haida people and their relationship to the land and sea, and provides a key to the visual representation of their oral tradition.
Chinese Stone Sculpture Art Park
The Chinese Stone Sculpture Art Park is located in Dashiwo Town, Fangshan District, Beijing, covering an area of 2,400 mu. The park is dominated by stone sculptures. Stone gods, stone tripods, stone bridges and other sculptures are all made of stone from Dashiwo Town. It fully reflects the artistic characteristics of stone sculptures. The main body of the park is divided into two floors. There are 8 main landmark sculptures in the park, and there are more than 100 sculptures such as lotus bridges, auspicious bell pavilions, totem poles, etc. built around it. There is a fountain with a total length of 120 meters in the park, an artificial lake, and Xiaoyue Pavilion, and various flowers are planted. The main landscapes include the White Marble Cultural and Art Palace, stone archway, stone gods, stone tripods, totem stone balls, stone art relief corridors, fitness squares, fountains and other attractions. The entire park is not only for tourists to visit and entertain, but also displays traditional exquisite stone carving art. It is a large park integrating gardening, stone carving skills, stone carving projects, entertainment, leisure and fitness.
Hoysala Temples
The collection includes three of South India’s most iconic Hoysala temple complexes, dating from the 12th and 13th centuries. The Hoysala dynasty carefully selected and combined features of contemporary and ancient temples to create a unique identity from neighboring kingdoms. Features of these temples include hyper-realistic sculptures, full-surface stone carvings, wrap-around platforms, large sculptured galleries, multi-layered frieze, and sculptures depicting the Hoysala legend. The artistic achievements of the complexes are enhanced by outstanding sculptural art, and the temple complexes represent an important stage in the development of Hindu temple architecture.
Fuerte de Samaipata
The archaeological site of Samaipata consists of two parts: the hill with many carvings, believed to be the ceremonial center of the old town (14th-16th centuries), and the area to the south of the hill, which was the administrative and residential area. The huge carved rock overlooking the town below is a unique testimony to pre-Hispanic traditions and beliefs, unparalleled anywhere in the Americas.
Tianjin Old City Museum
Tianjin Old City Museum is located in the Xu Family Courtyard on Dongmenli Street in the Old City. It was originally the home of Xu Pu'an, the comprador of the British Mercantile Bank. It was built during the Republic of China and has a construction area of 2,400 square meters. The three-courtyard west wing of this traditional residence has been restored as the living room of the old Tianjin people, recreating the living scenes of the people living in the old city. It adopts the Chinese architectural style, with blue bricks and hard roofs. The overall building faces north and south, with Qianzhai Xunmen. The central axis consists of three courtyards, and there are arrow paths on the east and west sides. Its architectural carvings are elegant and exquisite. It is the only well-preserved typical traditional residence with three courtyards and four courtyards in Tianjin city. It now covers an area of 1,381 square meters and a construction area of 711 square meters. When the Old City began large-scale urban transformation, Mr. Feng Jicai and many experts and scholars went deep into the Old City several times to conduct on-site cultural relics inspections, and proposed to transform the Xu Family Courtyard into China's first donated museum-Tianjin Old City Museum. The Old City Museum exhibits more than 3,600 cultural relics donated by the public, including the "official weights" used to weigh grain at Tianjin Canal Transport Terminal in the Qing Dynasty, mahogany "lamp boxes", the boundary monument of the Jiangsu Guild Hall, and a "refrigerator" from the Republic of China period, as well as thread-bound books recording Tianjin folk customs, old records, wooden kettle covers, wooden covers, and stoves, as well as century-old copper beds, table clocks, hand-cranked record players, radios, etc.