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Oddities from the world of stones: obelisks have always been challenges for stone sculptors, engineers, and storytellers

The British company Lapicida has now included scaled-down versions in its collections

Thermal springs from an extinct underwater volcano make the “Octopus Garden“ on the deep seafloor off the Central California coast a paradise for the animals‘ mating and nesting

New in the list of Heritage Stones: Rochlitz porphyry tuff

The red rock from Germany originates from a supervolcano and can be found on numerous buildings

Fractal structures in the ammonoid shells millions of years ago gave the animals special protection from predators when they bit them

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, shows objects from the rich and powerful kingdom that once was a superpower in the Nubian desert of modern-day Sudan and had long been misunderstood

Following the landslide at Piz Cengalo in 2017, the new protective structures in Bergell in the Swiss Alps are being built according to a pioneering concept

A gentle design is to integrate the dams and walls into the localities and the landscape

In his book “Kulturgeschichte des Mühlsteins“ (Cultural History of the Millstone), former CEO Harald Marschner tells of the thick round stones, how they came out of the quarries and how the millers knew how to work with them

Sensation finds from Jordan and Saudi Arabia: carvings in stone are the oldest construction plans of humanity

The depictions describe so-called desert kites, which are long stone ramparts for catching animals in the former savannah

An interactive 3D model recreates the Old Man of the Mountain that fell off the cliff in New Hampshire on May 03, 2003

The face-shaped granite formation destroyed by weathering once was the state emblem

“Memorie di Pietro Grassi“: how the stone sector was 3 generations ago and how everyday life in Europe has changed since then

The senior of Grassi Pietre srl has written an account of his life and that of his ancestors

Learning more about the ecosystems along the active vents at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 2000 m water depth

An international research team has discovered 3 new fields of hydrothermal chimneys with rich biological communities using chemical energy instead of sunlight

“Operação Chapa Branca“ (Operation White Raw Slab): Brazil’s federal police strike a blow against a ring of drug dealers who hid and shipped their contraband in natural stone slabs

British stonemason and artist Beatrice Searle walked the Gudbrandsdalen Pilgrimage Trail in Norway with a “stone boat“ as hand luggage in tow and wrote a book about it

Europe has three Capitals of Culture in 2023: Elefsina (Eleusis) in Greece, Veszprém in Hungary and Timișoara in Romania

As usual, the editors of Stone-Ideas.com looked up what they have to offer in terms of natural stone

Miscellaneous: news all around natural stone and rock

In 2022, British archaeologist Timothy Darvill came out with the sensational thesis that Stonehenge was a precise annual calendar, from which the exact dates for the days could be read