and in one case by a man hand-digging an irrigation canal. They are the Clovis caches, groupings of exquisitely carved spear points and/or other flaked stone artifacts crafted thousands of years ago.

Chongqing's Dazu and Ziyang city in Sichuan are known for their stone carvings — 150,000 in all — among which the Anyue ...

His work plays with contrasts: The solidity of stone softened by flowing ... hidden world of flowing sandstone walls, tunnels, and hand-carved alcoves that glow with filtered light.

Carved stone balls are mysterious and uniquely Scottish objects. They are thought to date from the late Neolithic period, more than 4000 years ago. We do not know what they were for or how they ...

The Pictish symbol stones at Aberlemno are “perhaps the most extraordinary and beautiful of all carved stones in the British Isles”, according to Historic Environment Scotland. So the news ...

U.S. customs officials in Miami on Tuesday said they seized ancient carved stones from Cameroon known as Ikom monoliths that had been exported to the United States using fake documents. Though not ...

William Protheroe Ltd is a family-run business that produces hand-carved stone memorials, plaques and sculptures. They have been using traditional methods and tools since 1848, bringing out the ...

In addition to the pyramids or walls with soul towers as primary tomb signs, many carved stone statues were erected as guards of honor in front of the mausoleums with their spaces ranging in size ...