A MYSTERIOUS stone carved nearly 1,700 years ago has been unearthed in a region rich with Biblical history, where Jesus is ...

"They need to be preserved. It's history and it's important." Tribal members outraged as officials search for climbers who damaged cherished landmark: 'These are our churches' first appeared on The ...

learning to replicate designs from the former mediums in rock. In Gujarat, two stone carving traditions emerged, one based on ...

At Stone Mountain, the carving was a shallow relief (although ... and then paint instructions on the rock for the drillers to follow. To make things easier, Borglum's models were proportioned ...

Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable archaeological contexts” and provide “insight into early runic writing ...

But detailed chemical analysis of the carving’s crevices ... study of the stone that uses new advances in chemical analysis, epigraphy, and the study of rock-cut Elizabethan inscriptions to ...

Iron powder would be rubbed by hand on the completed object to get a smooth finish. “Stone carving is a hard way to earn a living. Most artisans would spend six to eight hours in the sun ...