Carved Inca statue on the coast of Lake Titicaca from Copacabana in Bolivia, South America

The Falklands Conflict War Memorial in Stanley, the capital and only true city (with a cathedral) in the Falkland Islands, South America

The tiny 18th-century Stavropoleos Church is one of the most beautiful religious monuments in the capital of Romania. Tucked away between taller buildings in Bucharest´s Old Town, the monument was originally part of Stavropoleos Monastery

Image of God Osiris, Paintings and Relief, Tomb of Nefertari, QV66, Valley of the Queens, Ancient Thebes, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luxor, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Camunian village with hut and barns or pantries engraved on rock 35, Naquane National Park, Valcamonica (Val Camonica), Lombardy, Italy, Europe

Engraved slab inside Kiviksgraven Bronze Age grave, Kivik, Skane, South Sweden, Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe

Temple of Karnak, Egypt

Names carved into a wall at Eton College boarding school, UK.

Gravestone at St Oswalds Church, Widford, in the Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, UK

Stone tablets engraved with the laws of Gortyna, Gortyna, south coast, Crete, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

One of many marble slabs containing text and commentary from the Tripitaka, Kuthodaw Pagoda, Mandalay, Myanmar, (Burma)

Mani stones engraved with the Tibetan mantra Om Mani Padme Hum, Nubra Valley, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

Rock engraving of an ox, Wadi Mathendusch, Libya

A big Tibetan Mani Stone with the Mantra "Om Mani Padme Hum" colorfully engraved on a hill above the Indus Valley, Shey, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

Mani stones with the engraved Tibetan mantra Om Mani Padme Hum, Nubra Valley, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

Petroglyph, Alta, North Norway, Norway

Rock engraving of an ox, Wadi Mathendusch, Libya

Rock engraving of an ox, Wadi Mathendusch, Libya

Petroglyph, Alta, North Norway, Norway

Image of Lawrence of Arabia engraved in a mountain, desert, Wadi Rum, Jordan, Western Asia

Engraved sandstone at the portal of a tomb, Little Petra, the capital city of the Nabataeans, rock city, UNESCO World Hertage Site, Wadi Musa, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Orient, Middle East, Asia

Tibetan Buddhist mantras engraved in stone, Tongde monastery, Zanskar valley, Zanskar, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Indian Himalayas, northern India, India, Asia

Close-up of Abraham Lincoln Statue, Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, USA

Abraham Lincoln Statue at a memorial, Washington DC, USA

Close-up of a memorial plaque, USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii Islands, USA

Statues at a monument with flags of Turkey, Monument of Ataturk and Youth, Kusadasi, Turkey

Close-up of a memorial plaque, USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii Islands, USA

Portrait of man wearing traditional Arabic clothes standing by traditional tea set on engraved tea table, Madaba Governorate, Jordan

Hawaii, Big Island, Puako Petroglyph Archaeological Site, Ancient hawaiian carvings.

Word America engraved into stone surface