A mysterious stone engraved with carvings nearly 1,700 years old has ... The volcanic basalt block, inscribed with ancient ...

The neglected marble quarries of Paros which centuries ago produced most of the sculptural masterpieces of ancient Greece are ...

Hand-carving these flutes after ... take delivery of the architrave stone. They are surrounded by repaired components incorporating new and ancient marble pieces. Evan Hadingham A crane lowers ...

Three different designs of ancient Greek columns. The Greeks believed ... held up with stone columns and sometimes decorated with stone carvings of famous battles from Greek myths.

which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’. The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods. The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD.