The Maya builders of Tulum used limestone blocks to construct their buildings, and they made their own cement by cooking up limestone rock!
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Big Ben’s clock tower took 13 years to build, from 1843 to 1856, but the clock itself didn’t start working until 1859!
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Petra is an ancient city carved into rose-colored rocks in the country of Jordan, which is just a little smaller than the U.S. state of Indiana! Imagine a whole city chiseled into pink cliffs — that’s Petra!
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The Palace of Versailles sits in the city of Versailles, just 12 miles (19 km) outside of Paris, France — that’s about the same distance as 210 football fields lined up end to end!
Mount Fuji’s perfect cone shape is studied by geologists (rock scientists) worldwide as an example (good copy) of a “textbook stratovolcano (cone-shaped volcano)”!