Stone structure

Stone structures, or "megaliths", have been built by men for thousands of years. Many of these structures were built around the same time (the 3rd millennium BC).

Some of the better known ones are:

• Easter Island
• Egyptian pyramids
• Medicine wheels
• Stone circle
• Stone circle (Iron Age)
• Stonehenge, which is in England.
• Stone ship
• Ziggurats

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Stone Structure Media

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  A 15-storey apartment building in La Tourette (Marseille), designed by Fernand Pouillon. Constructed using the massive precut stone method.

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  Gobekli Tepe, early monumental Neolithic stonemasonry using flint-carved limestone columns (~9500 BCE)

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  12th-century stonemasonry at Angkor Wat

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  Diamond-wire saw in use for quarrying marble

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  Stonemason working with medieval tools

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  Stonemasonry with andesite, Borobudur, Indonesia

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  Splitting a block of marble with plug and feathers

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  A stonemason at Eglinton Tournament Bridge with a selection of tools of the trade

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  Precisely interfaced blocks at Sacsayhuamán citadel in Cusco, Peru

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  15 Clerkenwell Close in London uses a trabeated exoskeleton.