Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...

Here’s how it works. A weighty stone carved with a mysterious pattern that may be writing has been discovered in a garden in Leicester, England. The hefty carving was up for sale as a garden ...

Rare stone carving depicting Assyrian king surrounded by gods unearthed - Stone engravings of deities from the Assyrian ...

What they found was astonishing: delicate grid-like patterns interwoven with the ... as in Gönnersdorf, carving stories into stone. The findings appeared in the journal PLOS ONE.

One of the Loughcrew cairns also contains a large stone carving of overlapping concentric circles, which could represent a view of the moon partially occluding the sun during an eclipse.

They work silently, only stopping to light a cigarette, as their carvings form intricate symbols representing the tree of life, eternity, vines and other traditional patterns. All of their ...

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 sophisticated and detailed that it has ...

However, the carving of Davis, Lee, and Jackson on the side of Stone Mountain only represents a small, regrettable time in the history of the Peach State. It’s high time we added a bit more of ...

Jiangzhou stone carving, a traditional skill originating in Xinjiang county, has a history of more than 1,000 years. In 2017, Jiangzhou stone carving was listed as a provincial-level intangible ...

Once in place, the slab was chiseled into an intricate design known as the Large Stone Carving. Howard Stone, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton, and colleagues in ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods. The slab was ...