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Friedrich August I of Saxony, better known as Augustus the Strong, had purchased the masterpiece in 1728, but later it got forgotten
One of the challenges is finding new quarries or bringing decommissioned ones back into service to provide the large quantities needed
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
Double water channels may have been used to maintain the system while enabling constant operation
Unlike other cathedrals of transportation, at Union Station, marble and other stone varieties only accentuate, show less opulence and wealth
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
The huge circular building with a diameter of 90 meters was once covered with marble and travertine, of which, however, nothing has been preserved
A study shows that climate changes are also reflected in ancient religious texts
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
Scientists read the rock cycle that happened in less than about 10 million years
Similar to a more or less taut violin string, the pitch of the mountain also changes depending on the tension in the rock
Still today, e.g., stonemasons working on the maintenance of cathedrals built supra-regional networks to preserve, transmit and develop techniques and knowledge
The recently discovered monumental structures still hold many secrets in their construction, function, and chronology
Scientists from the Univerity of Bern have found that in the Central Alps the positive difference between uplift and erosion is as much as 800 mm in a thousand years
Hermann Graser was elected as his successor at the general meeting of the German Natural Stone Association