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Study of the spectacular inselbergs on the Brazilian coast, where flora and fauna are being reintroduced to former quarries

Unesco has inscribed 26 new cultural and natural properties on its World Heritage List (2025)

We present some of the new entries with clear references to stone

Woe betide the giant when he gets angry: Tourists with coins cause serious damage at the Giant’s Causeway

They press coins into the basalt cracks, causing the metal to rust and crack the stone or cover it with streaks of color

Stone Age people had a foible for colored stones as materials for their tools

Studies from Africa show that they traveled long distances for red jasper, green chalcedony, and black chert

The EU research project “RestReef“ aims to use rocks to support reef formation off the coasts of the Atlantic and Mediterranean and also create skilled jobs

Enigma from postclassic Mesoamerica (1400-1521 A.D.): Was the Coyote-man of Tacámbaro, seated on a throne, a symbol of authority, inheritance, and dynastic legitimacy?

Nova Gorica in Slovenia and Chemnitz in Germany are the European Capitals of Culture for 2025

Both tell of nations living together in peace but also of (cold) war

The French stonemason couple Orianne and Louis have a TV crew with them for the new start of their “Route de la Pierre”, but from now on they want to take a more relaxed approach to their exploration of stonemasonry culture

The Kerdroya Labyrinth in Cornwall celebrates the ancient tradition of the “Cornish Hedges“

The stone layers are a cross between dry stone walls and earthworks

The stonemasons of the company Davies Stone Creations were awarded a Scottish architecture prize for their “Long Barrow,“ which resembles a Stone Age megalithic tomb

Vatican mystery: The lettering on the marble tomb slab of the deceased Pope Francis shows serious errors in the spacing of the letters

Skipping stones across the water and counting the number of skips or measuring the distance

In the modern consumer world, simple amusement is becoming great fun again for some people

The mysterious “sunstones“ from the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm could refer to a volcanic explosion in the Stone Age around 2900 BC and be evidence of a sun cult in Northern Europe

Pope Francis‘ tomb is made of marble from Liguria, a coastal region in North-Western Italy with Genoa as capital, the land of his ancestors

Quarrying Stone Slabs with Heat

Examples are described in the scientific literature, and the process is still known e.g. in Southern India