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in the center of the city of oxun once the capital of this studying empire stand some of the most remarkable monuments of the ancient world these large vertical phallic symbols were erected in honor of the glory of the king under solid blocks of sinite king's body was laid to rest this park is a memorial ground of a civilization over one hundred stella erected between the third and fourth centuries ad as grave markers for oxum's elite they're taller than any other monoliths crafted in the ancient world, i asked dr abba bal gella to explain to me how architecture on this scale could have been created back then have about how in the world did they move this huge slab here from another place they brought these stones from distance of five kilometers to the west as one big unit as one big unit this fragmented column estimated to way 700 tons is one of the largest single pieces of stone ever carved by sculptors scholars believe that it buckled as it was being erected the carving process they definitely used chis lake so they must have used iron chisels so the artwork took place right where it where it would be erected so the carving might have taken probably ten years, nine years, ten years yeah how long did it take to move it from the quarry probably they can drag it a distance of you know ten years or fifteen years a day that might have also taken them about three years do we know for whom the stella was created we don't know certainly, but if we see fragmentary historical sources and then some evidences from archaeological excavations that are made at different times in this area this is telly uh seems to be made for alameda, alameda, the first and when did he look the second half of the third century king, al almeda also known as usanus ruled during the golden age of oxun gold coins, embossed with his face and name and inscribed in greek, were recently on earth in india, two thousand miles away, we think that usatus's son isana who would become one of the most famous kings of oxun was memorialized by the other great stella on the site a network of chambers libraried beneath these towers i'm about this amazing look at those shafts of light yeah now what was in the chambers on the right as opposed to the chambers these are tombs of kings so on this side they deposit the body of the king and then on this side they deposit the valuables of the kings not like in egyptian pyramids when they would bury the king with his possessions here they put the possessions here and the body there yeah the body and the positions in different directions 90 percent of ancient oxun remains unexcavated beneath the city's modern buildings, but sculpture of reliefs on the selleye are signs of its grandeur as you look up the steel, you see story after story of windows there's even door frames with handles, which you could open if you had the right kind of power。