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Major conservation of a cathedral's stonework has been completed after five years. Decades of weathering had left the ...
But after visiting an exhibition in 2010 featuring photographs of the Grotte des Portugais showing a beautiful carved stone wall and an entrance, the researcher began to wonder whether the ...
As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone. Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and ...
Johnston has been carving the Memorial Wall stars for 35 years. TIM JOHNSTON, CIA Memorial Wall Carver: I don't get but one shot, and I can't mess up, you know, carved in stone, as the old saying ...
Their deals were set in stone. Israel Antiquities Authority discovered a 2,000-year-old receipt carved into a chalkstone slab during an excavation in Jerusalem.
The Canongate Wall is a feature of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Designed by Soraya ...
The massive object at the heart of Mexico’s largest and most popular museum is so mysterious that nobody knows quite what to call it. The label on its pedestal reads “Piedra del Sol,” or ...
This Canadian island is home to a huge collection of Irish dry stone walls Canada's Amherst Island, home to the largest collection of Irish dry stone walls outside of Ireland, will transport you ...
A stone discovered in a Bucks County cave brings the Doan Gang legend closer to the truth A carved stone was recently discovered in a Bucks County cave. It is evidence of movements by a Bucks County ...
A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.
A small, carved penis pendant was found in Vindolanda on April 25, the Vindolanda National Trust told McClatchy News in an email. “It was found dropped into the rubble fill or core of a stone wall.
But after visiting an exhibition in 2010 featuring photographs of the Grotte des Portugais showing a beautiful carved stone wall and an entrance, the researcher began to wonder whether the ...