When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A weighty stone carved with a mysterious pattern that may be writing has been discovered in a ...

Carvings on the stones served as important sources of learning about life of the past. Unfortunely, it is this art that is now on its way to becoming a part of history. With little support from the ...

An ancient stone carving depicting a Scottish warrior at what is believed to have been a "cemetery of the elite" was potentially created to "invoke supernatural protection." The stone was discovered ...

Sitting under a large canopy tent in Montreal's Place d'Armes, Danny Barber, with his hammer and chisel in hand, worked away at his sculpture of a goldfinch perched on a tuque. This is his fourteenth ...

A German man discovered a historically significant stone carving from the 12th century during recent home renovations in the town of Klotzow on the nation’s northern coast. Just centimeters below the ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods. The slab was made ...

These exquisite artworks are carved from natural stones. The colored stones exist only in Shoushan village, in southeastern China's Fuzhou, therefore they are called "Shoushan stone". One thousand ...

The carving at Stone Mountain should stay. It should be preserved for future generations of Georgians to visit and to marvel at, not out of veneration for the ugly cause that it was intended to ...

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Nearly lost amid the violence and cultural nihilism of the Khmer Rouge, stone carvers continue to find markets for their ancient tradecraft Veteran stone-carver Touey puts the finishing touches on a ...

A student has discovered what is thought may be a rare carving of a Pict’s face while volunteering on a dig. Jodie Allan was digging at East Lomond hill fort in Fife, Scotland, when she found what she ...