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 ...

Lishui Jian, a stone carving work in the shape of a large ship by Ye Pinyin, presents the natural scenery and landscape of Lishui city in East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo provided to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington Musonza, a stone sculptor, has carved out a name in Zimbabwe's renowned stone sculpture tradition. The 58-year-old artist's dynamic work ranges from abstract to figurative pieces, drawing ...

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, ...

It’s the tomb that keeps on giving. More than two years since its discovery, a treasure-filled Greek tomb has offered up perhaps its most significant find to date: a Minoan stone carving so ...

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 ...

The university released the following statement on August 22 about moving a historical piece of stonework and making it available for study and viewing: Yale University is moving a decorative piece of ...

This story was originally published on myAJC.com on Sept. 28, 2016, five days after Roy Faulkner, the man who carved Stone Mountain’s Confederate monument, died. It's a warm day in September and, with ...