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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

Change in the climate and the monsoon rains caused the sudden end of “China’s Venice of the Stone Age“ after 1000 years with a blossoming economy and jade art

The excavations of Temple A on the former Field of Mars in Rome show how sustainable building was already practiced by the Ancient Romans – even if not for ecological reasons

Hito Conmemorativo Comisión Pehuenche: 8 granite boulders at 2350 meters in the Andes look like figures immersed in the contemplation of the high mountains

In the stone world between Chile and Argentina there is a special memorial place

The Getty Museum has acquired an early marble bust of the Roman general Germanicus, adopted son of Tiberius and father of Caligula, before the ritual first shaving of the beard

Massive volcanism may have contradictionary impacts on climate: tropical warming on “shorter“ timescales, ice-age-cooling on multimillions of years

The emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key process, next to ocean fertilization by phosphorus from volcanic ashes

The 2nd season of the documentary series “Uomini di Pietra“ (Men of Stone) is underway: the tough guys in the quarries of Henraux have been joined by a woman

The six films of 60 minutes each show the challenges of quarrying the marble in the mountains near Carrara

Salvatori brings with “Gravity Zodiac“ twelve stone spheres on the market, which have a connection to astrology

The objects are profanely suitable for example as paperweights

Extraordinary Roman mosaic and villa discovered beneath farmer’s field in Rutland, UK

The artwork in 3 parts, which had been the floor of a large dining or entertaining area in a villa, features Achilles in his battle with Hector at the conclusion of the Trojan War

To build the siege ramp at Lachish in the ancient Kingdom of Judah, the Assyrian army organized the quarrying and transportation of about 3 million boulders from nearby sites

Probably, each little block of about 6.5 kg was conveyed from man-to-man by prisoners of war or forced labor

The mysterious stone spheres of Costa Rica probably defined power and dominion and gave mankind a sense of community

They were placed in the years from about 800 a.d. until the conquest by the Spanish in the 1500s

The South of Greek Naxos island also was an important area for marble quarrying in antiquity

Geoarchaeologist Scott Pike of Willamette University found tucked-away sites where the stone for an Apollo statue on Delos came from

Was the Middle Bronze Age city called Tall el-Hammam the Sodom from Bible and Koran, and was it destroyed by a meteorite exploding above the ground?

Scientists from East Carolina University, among others, analyzed a 1.5-meter-thick layer of carbon and ash in the Jordan Valley