Stone Stories
Colonization of the Antilles by fauna from South America: giant sunken islands served as passageways
Over the last 40 million years, movements of the tectonic plates and glacial cycles gave birth to appearance and disappearance of archipelagos in today’s Caribbean Sea
The Aqueduct of Constantinople: how the longest water channel of the ancient world was managed
Double water channels may have been used to maintain the system while enabling constant operation
The Oscar ceremony 2021 took place in Los Angeles in a train station with striking natural stone décor
Unlike other cathedrals of transportation, at Union Station, marble and other stone varieties only accentuate, show less opulence and wealth
Oldest stone map from the Bronze Age rediscovered after more than 100 years in the cellar of a French museum
The relief with circles and lines comes from the Finistère region in the far west of Brittany and could depict the territory of a ruler
For the time after Covid-19: the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome is open to visitors again
The huge circular building with a diameter of 90 meters was once covered with marble and travertine, of which, however, nothing has been preserved
What is behind the water miracles of Italian saints in the 6th century AD
A study shows that climate changes are also reflected in ancient religious texts
On our list for the time after Covid-19: Bernini’s Fountain of Four Rivers in Rome
This work of art in Piazza Navona symbolizes the known world of the time and is great cinema in many ways
Sturgeon stones weighing tons create habitats for animals and plants in the riverbed of the Wupper in Germany
Elephant Tuffi, beaver Bonny and salmon Lucky made by sculptors are intended to slow down the flow of the watercourse and be points of attraction for people
Grains of garnet sand tell the story of traveling from the surface to about 75 miles in the Earth, then returning to the surface before ending up on a beach
Scientists read the rock cycle that happened in less than about 10 million years
The Bauhüttenwesen, which is the ancient craftspeople’s tradition of cooperation and know-how sharing in construction projects, is added to the Unesco List of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Still today, e.g., stonemasons working on the maintenance of cathedrals built supra-regional networks to preserve, transmit and develop techniques and knowledge
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