Visitors appreciate stone carvings at the 17th China Four Famous Stones Carving Art Exhibition launched at the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum in Beijing on Friday. [Photo provided to ...

The collection integrates effortlessly with various architectural styles, blending a rich heritage with the charisma of stone and the sturdiness of porcelain stoneware. Save this picture!

In Dazu County, some 165 kilometers away from Chongqing, are more than 40 sites of stone carvings with over 50,000 statues of Buddha completed from the late Tang Dynasty (618-907) to the Song ...

Stone carvings hidden from view for 600 years have been discovered on a tomb at a Perthshire cathedral. Conservationists found at least a dozen unrecorded carved figures on the back of Bishop ...

The stone craft of ancient times mainly involved carving of stones to make small weapons. Arrow heads, spears javelin points and hammers are made out of stone. These tools were used both for ...

For thousands of years, sculptors and architects in India have used stone because of its durability. Until 2500 some years ...

She’s one of seven stone-carvers working as Windmill Studio ... As she works on the intricate facial details of her carving, it’s as though every hit of the mallet transforms the features into ...

There are further carvings outside the workshop - the carving that looks like a man is thought to be a back-to-front finial - the stone at the gable end of a building. The "eye holes" would be ...

Gouges and chisels are the usual tools for relief carving, often accompanied by a mallet to drive the tools into the wood.

In the town of Westford, Massachusetts, as far back as the mid-19th century, locals discovered a stone carving on a rock face that appeared to show a figure of a person. They debated whether it was ...

which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred carving’. The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods. The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD.