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 ...

A s 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 ...

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. Primary Menu Sections ...

Like a young Indiana Jones, he read about the “1775 M” stone mentioned in an 1859 newspaper correspondence in which the writer Joseph Fell claims his son with friends spelunked a cave in Buckingham ...

Canada's Amherst Island, home to the largest collection of Irish dry stone walls outside of Ireland, will transport you back in time to 19th-century Ireland ...

Salvatori knows how to transform nature’s most ancient material into something extraordinary and almost weightless. The Tuscany-based natural-stone design brand blends beauty with design and ...

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 ...