It’s the tomb that keeps on giving. More than two years since its discovery, a treasure-filled Greek tomb has offered up perhaps its most significant find to date: a Minoan stone carving so ...

Tourists take photos at the Beijing Stone Carving Art Museum in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 26, 2025. At this time when autumn enters into winter, the Beijing Stone Carving Art Museum is adorned ...

Some of the world’s most famous statues and buildings use the same particularly soft material. The Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt, the Venus of Willendorf in the Natural History Museum of Austria, and ...

Old Vermont cemeteries have stories to tell, and they are cut deep into the stone of almost every grave. Civilizations have always tried to address the nature of life and death in how they memorialize ...

As institutions across the United States re-evaluate images of America’s shameful history, Yale officials have covered part of a stone carving depicting a Puritan and a Native American outside its own ...

A small town in Central Mexico is home to around 200 open-air carving workshops, from which an astonishing array of sculptures continuously emerges. Leonel Uribe Franco works on a carving in an ...

A tree cluster at the Temple of Confucius in Qufu, Shandong province (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY ) At the Beijing Stone Carving Art Museum, formerly a temple, two ginkgo trees, each with a diameter ...

Nick Benson upholds the ancient craft of stone-carving letters. His work has been recognized with a MacArthur "genius" grant. Now he's working on the new Eisenhower Monument in Washington, D.C. The ...

This story was originally published on myAJC.com on Sept. 28, 2016, five days after Roy Faulkner, the man who carved Stone Mountain’s Confederate monument, died. It's a warm day in September and, with ...