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Against the fashion trends at the time of Christ’s birth: Herod bathed in a tub made of domestic alabaster, not from Egypt, although the country on the Nile stood for luxury and fine living

In the Chinese province of Zhejiang, 9 former quarries have become a tourist attraction

The spectacular canyons and massive caves are testimony to the industrial culture of past centuries

Scientists find out why dripping water hollows out stone

The explanation: each droplet, although small and soft, acts like a tiny bomb, releasing its impact energy explosively and thus creating punctual erosion

Stone Insight: Experiences from Finlandia Hall in Helsinki: a brief look into how the new testing methods were developed to prevent similar construction disasters with natural stone in the future

In the Danish city of Billund, there is a playground called “Play Contract“, where children and adults are supposed to come together around objects made of pink marble

The project in LEGO City aims to encourage generations to play together

Dispute in Sheffield over 37-ton Carrara marble tomb for local bare-knuckle-boxer celebrity

Cemetery officials say bereaved family did not seek permission for monumental site

Mystery solved: the material of the 30,000-year-old Venus from Willendorf came along a long path from Lake Garda in today’s Northern Italy to the Danube River in Lower Austria

Stone Wall Trees are an ecological feature in the subtropical metropolises of Asia

Mostly the Chinese Banyan (Ficus microcarpa), which can develop magnificently in the extreme locations in the inner city

The exhibition “The Stonehenge World“ explains the new worldview 4000 years ago and people‘s interconnection over great distances

Highlights of the show in the British Museum in London are Seahenge, a circle of wooden posts from the Norfolk coast, and the Nebra Sky Disk from Saxony-Anhalt in Germany

The restoration of Michelangelo’s unfinished masterpiece Pietà Bandini confirmed old sources that problems with the marble caused the work to be abandoned

The 2.7-ton block from the Seravezza quarries had microcracks and “impurities“ so that even the chisels “sparked“

An exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum (through May 15, 2022) shows how Renaissance and Baroque painters used stones as canvas and for more

The blue of lapis lazuli became water or sky, striations in lined jasper represented the sea’s undulating waves

Winter Olympics 2022 in Beijing: unlike in the summer of 2008, no jade in the winners‘ medals

This time there is only a symbolic reference to the history and culture of the country through the neolithic “yu bi“ discs

Rock art (petroglyphs) in the Great Basin in the western USA have been carved into the stone for 12,000 years and continuously renewed

Max-Planck researchers from Germany have dated the artworks with a non-destructive analysis of the “rock varnish“

The orientation of the Kofun imperial tombs reflects the Japanese Emperors‘ self-understanding as descendants of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu

Scientists used high-resolution satellite images to bettern understand the monuments built from the 3rd to the 6th century AD

Traces of Solar flares in sediments under ancient towns are chronicles of the trade hundreds of years ago

Researchers have re-dated Viking-age commerce connections with regions in North Atlantic Norway, Frankish Western Europe and even the Middle East