This may look like a modern civil engineering marvel—but in fact you’re looking at the largest known stone block to be tirelessly carved by human hands. Discovered in a stone quarry in Baalbek, ...
STONE MOUNTAIN – The country’s largest Confederate monument is in the spotlight as the fight for racial equality sweeps across the country Stone Mountain Park in Georgia is home to the largest carving ...
A small town in Central Mexico is home to around 200 open-air carving workshops, from which an astonishing array of sculptures continuously emerges. Leonel Uribe Franco works on a carving in an ...
During construction of a heating network in a France town, researchers discovered ancient Roman architecture. French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research Toul, a city in ...
The master weaver stands up and starts to sing. His voice echoes around the carpet warehouse, a high warble pure and true, making the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and goosebumps ripple along ...
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 ...
Ancient stone carvings have long captured the imagination of historians and enthusiasts alike, with some suggesting these artworks depict aircraft-like machines. The presence of such carvings in ...
Egyptian authorities say they caught looters digging up an ancient stone block carved with an image of a pharaoh. In the city of Abydos, antiquities authorities say they were inspecting an old ...
The largest stone building block ever carved by human hands has been found by German archeologists. The stone, which could be more than 2,000 years old, was found in a quarry in Baalbek, Lebanon. It ...