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The Aqueduct of Constantinople: how the longest water channel of the ancient world was managed
Double water channels may have been used to maintain the system while enabling constant operation
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The Oscar ceremony 2021 took place in Los Angeles in a train station with striking natural stone décor
Unlike other cathedrals of transportation, at Union Station, marble and other stone varieties only accentuate, show less opulence and wealth
Oldest stone map from the Bronze Age rediscovered after more than 100 years in the cellar of a French museum
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
For the time after Covid-19: the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome is open to visitors again
The huge circular building with a diameter of 90 meters was once covered with marble and travertine, of which, however, nothing has been preserved
What is behind the water miracles of Italian saints in the 6th century AD
A study shows that climate changes are also reflected in ancient religious texts
Sturgeon stones weighing tons create habitats for animals and plants in the riverbed of the Wupper in Germany
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
Grains of garnet sand tell the story of traveling from the surface to about 75 miles in the Earth, then returning to the surface before ending up on a beach
Scientists read the rock cycle that happened in less than about 10 million years
Using the natural oscillation of the 2592-meter-high Hochvogel peak in Austria to “hear“ how the rock becomes unstable
Similar to a more or less taut violin string, the pitch of the mountain also changes depending on the tension in the rock
The Bauhüttenwesen, which is the ancient craftspeople’s tradition of cooperation and know-how sharing in construction projects, is added to the Unesco List of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Still today, e.g., stonemasons working on the maintenance of cathedrals built supra-regional networks to preserve, transmit and develop techniques and knowledge
Drystone walls are Arabia’s megalithic monuments
The recently discovered monumental structures still hold many secrets in their construction, function, and chronology
Despite wind and weather – the Swiss Alps continue to rise
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
Stone people: Insiders say of Joachim Grüter, who is stepping down after 20 years as DNV President: “He was a stroke of luck for the industry“
Hermann Graser was elected as his successor at the general meeting of the German Natural Stone Association
Forensic geology: tracking victims through mineralogical characteristics of makeup ingredients
With a spectroradiometer, remains like talc, montmorillonite, and kaolinite could be identified at a crime scene
Greenpeace once again throws rocks into the sea, this time in cooperation with the artist Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press
The current action was to stop trawling in the Doggerbank nature reserve
Over 100,000 years ago, fertile loess from the Negev helped the early humans on their way from Africa to Eurasia with the “land of milk and honey” in the Levant
Dr. Rivka Amit from the Geological Survey of Israel found that dust deposition by desert winds played a critical role in forming thick or thin soils around the Eastern Mediterranean