Ancient Greeks used a primitive type of lifting machine to move heavy stones before they began using cranes 2,500 years ago.

In 2022, a villager walking through the forest near the Măgura Călanului limestone quarry in Romania came across an ancient set of ... who may have been a master mason, Pețan said.

Freemasonry as practised today emanated from ancient stone masons. It was indicated to us that from the beginning of the scriptures, masons were around. In those days we were operative ...

Terracotta pipes embedded in stone walls ... basins and masonry, divided into three different spaces, archaeologists said. The site was built on the outskirts of an ancient settlement, researchers ...

"We were able to exactly replicate the structure, texture and mechanical properties of the ancient material," says Rodriguez-Navarro. Getty Images Maya stone masons used sap from trees such as the ...

A search is underway for more than 30 fragments of the ancient Stone of Destiny ... fragments in question came about when a mason secretly repaired the stone after it split in two during the ...

Dry stone masonry is an ancient technique — think Egyptian pyramids and Mayan ruins — that the Lexington-based conservancy, a nonprofit, has worked for more than 25 years to preserve and promote.

Archeologists in Spain have recently uncovered an ancient rock slab with an alphabet inscribed that predates the Rosetta Stone by roughly 400 years. The discovery in southwest Spain is believed to ...