Limestone in example sentence

In vandalism reminiscent of the Taliban’s demolition of the monumental Buddhas of Bamyan in Afghanistan in 2001, Islamists ransacked the Maldives’ main museum in Male, the capital, on the day Nasheed was ousted, smashing priceless Buddhist and Hindu statues made of coral and limestone, virtually erasing all evidence of the Maldives’ Buddhist past before its people converted to Islam in the twelfth century.

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That is, until 1998, when one Yale professor John Coleman Darnell discovered these inscriptions in the Thebes desert on the limestone cliffs in western Egypt, and these have been dated at between 1800 and 1900 B.C., centuries before Mesopotamia.

Around this half of the country, most of your caves are made of limestone.

So it would all be built in stone, in French limestone, except for this metal piece.

One coral polyp will divide itself again and again and again, leaving a limestone skeleton underneath itself and growing up toward the sun.

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