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Major exhibition at the MET Museum exploring the origins of Buddhist Art in India, until November 13, 2023

The show titled “Tree and Serpent“ features more than 125 works in stone, metal, ivory, ceramics, paintings, and jewelry

New in the list of Heritage Stones: Rochlitz porphyry tuff

The red rock from Germany originates from a supervolcano and can be found on numerous buildings

Competition “Old stones – new soul“: gravestones reclaimed

In a project for the federal horticulture show (BuGa) 2023, the German Stonemasons’ Association showed examples of upcycling stone

Coat of arms cartouche installed on the façade: work on the new Berlin Palace / Humboldt Fum is nearing completion

The balustrade figures, which are new creations, are still missing

14. Global Wealth Report by Credit Suisse and UBS: gains in Latin Amerika, losses in North America

Much of the decline comes from the appreciation of the US dollar against other currencies

Miscellaneous: news all around ornamental stone and rock

On Saturn, megastorms occur approximately every 20 to 30 years and are similar to hurricanes on Earth, although significantly larger. But unlike Earth’s hurricanes, no one knows what causes them and why they last for hundreds of years

Fractal structures in the ammonoid shells millions of years ago gave the animals special protection from predators when they bit them

Marketing for natural stone (3): the sector is once again in danger of losing touch with materials considered modern

When the talk turns to contemporary building materials in public, no one automatically thinks of stone

FIOR DI PESCO CARNICO, a magnificent marble with a white or grey background and bright veins ideal for bookmatching, quarried by Italian Margraf company

Four monumental totems in stone adorn the access roads to a community in the French Haut-Languedoc mountain range, Pierre Actual reports (#9/2023)

A step in the direction of a circular economy: waste from marble quarries as aggregates for iron smelting

From Brazil comes a process to use fragments of marble extraction instead of limestone

On occasion of the 45th World Heritage Meeting in Saudi Arabia in September 2023, the issue #104 of Unesco’s World Heritage Magazin has been published

The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, returned an original Bakor monolith to Nigeria

The mysterious artwork originates from stone circles in today’s Cross River State and probably depicts an ancestor figure

The Stone+tec 2024 will include the new Tile+tec with ceramic products

The next natural stone exhibition from June 19 to 22 in Nuremberg will cover all areas of tile culture

General Meeting 2023 of the German Ornamental Stone Association (DNV): Natural stone as “building material of the future“

The New Constructing with Stone will play an important role at the Architecture Congress during the Stone+tec (June 19 – 22, 2024) in Nuremberg)