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 ...

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 ...

The Narragansett Rune Stone, marked with nine runic characters, is on display in Wickford Village, North Kingstown. The stone's origins and the meaning of the runes remain a mystery, with theories ...

A newly uncovered carving at Sayburc reveals scenes from a world 10,000 years gone. Its detail is unlike anything seen before. DC Mayor responds after Trump's order to take over DC police Royal ...

Sai Baba lay on his back in the cold sunlight on the mountain, his expression untroubled by the four-and-a-half-ton steel robot drilling at his head. The machine buzzed away in a mist of water and ...

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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 ...

East Block, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in the 2010s. Image © Wikipedia User: D. Gordon E. Robertson Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Foam Maquette of the ...

An Italian immigrant artist who helped shape the Mount Rushmore National Memorial lived most of his adult life in Westchester. Born in 1892, Luigi Del Bianco began wood carving as a boy in Meduno, ...