Scientists find why eternal Nile has kept its path since humans remember

It is the Earth’s mantle movement that keeps the river on course / The river is 6 times older than previously thought

Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone

„The Whale“ is the name of a new tourist information center to be built on the island of Andøya, 300 km North of the Arctic Circle. Its roof is covered with local stone

Musée Rodin in Paris: British artist Barbara Hepworth brought a new aesthetic sensibility into sculpting

The poetic style of her works is largely inspired by nature’s organic forms

Call for visual artists for the „Sentiers d’Art“ from May 21 to 31, 2020 in Belgium

Artworks in durable materials shall be created onsite to be exposed along a 140 km long walking loop in the Condroz-Famenne region

The Natural Stone Institute’s (NSI) new members

Vituperation: why, as far as marketing is concerned, nearly the entire marble and granite branch is barking up the wrong tree?

Instead of addressing the middle class many natural stone Organizations are propagating opulent art

Exceptional fossils may need a breath of oxygen to form

Research led by The University of Texas at Austin brings new understanding about „Konservat-lagerstätten“

Cersaie 2019: Large-size ceramic tiles and imitation crystal never before seen

At Bologna’s Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings the trend was once again toward perfect emulations in large formats

Do tectonic plates move because of movement in the Earth’s mantle, or is the mantle driven by the movement of the plates?

International scientists: its both forces at different parts of the planet’s surface and this balance of forces changes over geological time

Marmomac 2019: Hardly a stand with the usual opulence

Is the Italian stone branch eating humble pie because of poor export stats and global uncertainty?

Natural Stone Institute Seeks Association Members as Volunteers for its Xiamen Stone Fair Delegation

The fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago: mere concrete and thus of limited durability

In the closing months of 1989 just about all the citizens of the GDR gathered to march in protest and brought down the socialist regime

A „Tree of Rest“ by artist Elsa as a sculpture made of slate at a woodland cemetery in Luxembourg

French sculptress Elsa worked the symbolic piece of art in an open atelier near the village of Olm (Kehlen)

For the first time in six years Brazil experienced from January until March 2019 a growth in natural stone exports

Donald Trump’s anti-dumping measures directed against China may have had a reflected indirectly here

Strong winter dust storms (shamals) with droughts may have caused the collapse of the Akkadian Empire

Fossil coral records provide new facts why the ancient state in Mesopotamia suddenly collapsed and was taken over by invaders

Modern mosaics made of natural stone and special mirrors

Italian Antique Mirror Company lends many-facetetted means of expression to its glass

Tremendous fire at the Shuri Castle in Japan

The World Heritage site going back to the Ryuku kingdom has walls with stones composed in the Incan style known from ancient Latin America

„Marble Warsaw Fair“ will take place for the 1st time from June 01 to 04, 2020 in the capital of Poland

The new fair is a cooperation of Polish fair company PTAK Warsaw with Turkish organizer of „Marble Izmir Fair“

Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone

The Philippines’ national mapping agency (Namria) has announced that there are more than 500 new islands in the country as a result of new high-resolution radar data