as in obelisk
a very large stone that is usually tall and narrow
Archaeologists have reported the discovery of an ancient monolith.
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The strange mirrored monoliths began appearing around the world in 2020, with 245 counted so far by a tracking website, McClatchy News reported from Forbes.
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Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 27 June 2024
Others surmise the monoliths might be far-out works of art — or simply playful pranks.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 26 June 2024
Others then began appearing in places like Piatra Neamț, Romania, Pine Mountain in California and England’s Isle of Wight—and in the years that followed, nearly 250 monoliths have been found, reports USA Today’s George Petras and Javier Zarracina.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
Although the murderous alien is the films’ ostensible villain, Weyland-Yutani—an omnipresent monolith that’s sort of like if Tesla bought Netflix and was also the hospital—looms large over Alien’s grubby dystopia.
—Fran Hoepfner, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
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Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 27 June 2024
Others surmise the monoliths might be far-out works of art — or simply playful pranks.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 26 June 2024
Others then began appearing in places like Piatra Neamț, Romania, Pine Mountain in California and England’s Isle of Wight—and in the years that followed, nearly 250 monoliths have been found, reports USA Today’s George Petras and Javier Zarracina.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
Although the murderous alien is the films’ ostensible villain, Weyland-Yutani—an omnipresent monolith that’s sort of like if Tesla bought Netflix and was also the hospital—looms large over Alien’s grubby dystopia.
—Fran Hoepfner, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
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