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The mighty sarsen stones in the ring of Stonehenge are built of a nearly indestructible sandstone
The material has 99.7% quartz with crystals in an extremely dense lattice
Stone Stories
Carpenters from the US reconstruct a roof truss from Notre Dame “as a (symbolic) gift to France“
Experienced craftsmen from all over the country come together in Washington DC using materials and methods of medieval church builders
13 cultural properties newly inscribed in Unesco’s List of World Heritage, among them many stone structures
Sites must be of outstanding importance for humanity, not only for one nation or one region
Largest find of Jurassic starfish and relatives ever discovered in the UK
The Natural History Museum excavated a site in the once shallow sea some 167 million years ago that was rapidly buried during an underwater mudslide
Roman stonemasonry at its finest: a villa in the ancient cosmopolitan city of Ephesos displayed marble on its walls up to a height of 6 m
Geoarchaeology Professor Cees Passchier of the University of Mainz, Germany, together with colleagues, has reconstructed the decoration and made some surprising discoveries
Why the Roman stonemasons changed the order of the slabs in the marble bookmatch in a villa in Ephesus
Research by geoarchaeology Professor Cees Passchier of the University of Mainz, Germany, together with colleagues
Former limestone quarry near Salzgitter, Germany, recognized as worldwide geological reference point for the transition between Turonian and Coniacian during Cretaceous
The site is a perfect rock boundary sequence over 40 meters in width, with a well-defined record of events that took place in this interval of geological time
Pierre Actual reports on the work of stonemason-restorers in the reconstruction of Notre Dame: “far more than just a new professional experience“
After the phases of inventory and safeguarding, the actual renovation will begin in winter 2021
Euro 2020: How international soccer championships are and have been reflected in natural stone
A granite soccer ball from Austria, a web page of the country‘s Geological Survey and a marble bathtub from Germany
After 16 years of renovation, La Samaritaine in Paris can once again be experienced as a temple of consumerism
The facades facing the Seine are striking, with magnificent natural stone decor in Art Nouveau echoing the Second Empire and Baron Haussmann
A geological carpet in Belgium shows the layers of stone from 540 million years of the earth’s history
“Geological Wall“ (Mur géologique) is the title of the new attraction, which is almost finished near the village of Comblain-au-Pont about 30 km from Liège
At one spot in the Charyn Canyon, Kazakhstan, five million years of climate change are preserved
An 80-meter-thick sedimentary helps scientists to understand the feedback mechanisms between land, atmosphere and ocean
Sensation in Dresden: a skull in white marble has been attributed to the famous Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Friedrich August I of Saxony, better known as Augustus the Strong, had purchased the masterpiece in 1728, but later it got forgotten
As Notre Dame is being rebuilt, replacement stones that may be suitable are now going through laboratory testing
One of the challenges is finding new quarries or bringing decommissioned ones back into service to provide the large quantities needed
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