Austria’s stonemasons award their prize for modern gravestones with “individual and personal design”

The craftsmen want to get away from being only dealers and installers for stone products prefabricated in Asia

A tool for Covid-19 times: “Isola” can help to control access and sanitize people and objects that pass through it

Italian Faram 1957 company comes out with a box to facilitate business life / After the crisis, it may be transformed into a telephone booth

EuroSkills in Graz, Austria postponed to January 06 to 10, 2021

Miscellaneous: ideas with natural stone

The Big Stone River in Taganai Park in the southern Urals in Russia is a long field of large boulders that runs through the dense forest

Does the subduction of tectonic plates accelerate before major earthquakes?

Before the event followed by the Fukushima tsunami, the direction of the Earth crust’s movement had even been reversed for a short time

International Congress “Monument Future – Decay and Conservation of Stone” in September 2020 at the University of Göttingen in Germany

Experts from all over the world will discuss the current state of research and practical examples from damage analysis and stone restoration

Micellaneous: ideas with natural stone

Ring Grips with super-thin stone “so you don’t drop your phone” is how Mikol Marmi describes its newest product

U.S. Geological Survey releases first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the moon

Researchers merged new and old data from Apollo and recent satellite missions to develop a unified description of the stratigraphy, or rock layers, of our nearest neighbor in space

Redefine the existing cemeteries or alternative sites of burial as „spaces for mourning”

Scientific studies in Germany have shown the importance of saying goodbye and the role of individual rituals in this context

It was a rapid climate extreme that brought down Niniveh, once the biggest city in the world

An abrupt 60-year megadrought weakened the Assyrian state so much that its capital could be overrun by Babylonians and Medes who could rely on irrigation