Stone-ideas.com - the global online magazine for natural stone

What looks like pure vandalism, often was a carefully considered act to tear away the power from a ruler’s representation in stone

As always, the editors of Stone-Ideas.com researched what the cities have to offer in terms of natural stone

To reproduce the way a maize kernel opens its outer skin before sprouting, victims were skinned in a ritual after having been killed

Some of them point to the celestial pole, others to the star to which the pole would be approached in the future (seen from that time): Polaris

Scientists have a new understanding of the mechanical behavior of rocks during such an event

The sand particles cause the snow to absorb more sunlight and melt more quickly which sets off a series of interconnected feedback loops

Valorized was the living tradition of the ancient know-how and the role it still plays for maintaining the landscpae

The extraordinary stone was named „Inkalamu“ meaning ,lion’ in the local Bemba language

The University of Central Florida now sells such fake celestial dirt at $20 a kilogram plus shipping

Within a period of 8 days, it moved by 4 cm seawards and subsided by 1 cm / A collapse could trigger a tsunami in the region

Due to the forces of the seismic shocks, the sandy ground got liquid and engulfed all that it had carried before

The giant statues once carved from a sandstone hill had to be cut into thousands of blocks using the quarry technology of the 1960ies

Most were caused by construction, illegal hillcutting and illegal mining often combined with heavy rainfall

Different from was thought before, they have layers with many components that grow and dissolve

2017 already saw eight types of stone qualified, among them Portland Limestone, Larvikite, and, of course, Carrara Marble

Stone Stories