Carving stone sculptures is an ancient art, and African techniques are among the most revered in the world. These methods, passed down through generations, emphasize the importance of tools, materials ...

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 ...

Nestled high in the Colorado Rockies, the annual MARBLE/marble Stone Carving Symposium has drawn sculptors, both professional and aspiring, for decades. It took around a decade for that seed to ...

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 ...

In this video, I present my first stone carving, a sculpture of a female torso made from Calacatta marble and modern clear epoxy. The sculpture measures 24” tall, 14” wide, and 9” thick, weighing 76 ...

When Kathryn Vinson was in sixth grade, she was fitted with a pair of glasses and this changed her world. Things were sharper, bigger and more detailed for her, and she was fascinated by her ...

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 ...

“We’re currently renting a tiny portion of a stone fabricator’s workshop,” says Micah Springut, the founder of New York–based start-up Monumental Labs. “But this is about 37,000 square feet,” he adds, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...