A pilgrim who visited the Second Temple in Jerusalem may have carved their memories into a limestone block for another ...

Welcome to Al-Monitor Istanbul. These works mark the point where Kirci’s outer architecture meets his inner one. Born in Izmit in 1992, he was seven during the 1999 Marmara earthquake — too young to ...

I didn’t expect to walk away from a stone carving class with ink on my hands, a small slab of rock in my pocket and a deeper appreciation for Korean culture. But after 90 minutes in a quiet studio in ...

One of the most unusual programs in the state of Vermont is The Stone Bench Project, sponsored by the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center and funded by various communities and sponsoring organizations ...

On three August summer days, stone carver Daniel Miller taught a group of students how to work with sandstone at the historic Hercules #1 Quarry in Tenino. “What I was trying to accomplish was to give ...

An archaeology student volunteering at a Fife dig has uncovered what experts believe may be a rare carving of a Pictish face. Jodie Allan, a third-year archaeology student at the University of ...

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 ...

Jodie Allan holding the carved stone featuring a rare carving of a Pict’s face. Credit: PA An archaeology student has discovered an "incredibly rare" carving of what is believed to be a Pict’s face ...

The object was found by Jodie Allan during a dig at East Lomond hill fort in Fife. Jodie Allan found the stone while volunteering on a dig (University of Aberdeen/PA) An archaeology student has ...

A rock carving discovered in 2020 in northwestern China’s Qinghai province has been confirmed as dating to the Qin Dynasty (221–206 BC), China’s first imperial dynasty. Experts say it is the only ...

When artist Diego Sánchez Barceló and art director Alex Robertson Dunlop launched Seven Studio, they both relocated – Sánchez Barceló from London and Robertson Dunlop from New York – to Mallorca. Not ...

Since the Stone Age, stones have been the bearer of culture and the earliest civilisations. Over time, aside from making weapons, humans began to incorporate stones into building shelters. Later on, ...