Marble Village of Dhee Ayn
The Marble Village of Dhee Ayn in Saudi Arabia is a 400-year-old stone settlement built on top of a white marble hill. The construction...
Shanghai quarry wins landscaping award
Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden's Quarry Garden project has won a prestigious landscape practice award in London.
Designed by Prof. Zhu Yufan from Tsinghua University, the...
Ancient marble bracelets unearthed in Central China
Archaeologists have found six ancient white marble bracelets at a site in Central China's Henan province, local authorities said Tuesday.
Besides the bracelets, some other...
The underground quarry of Normandy – a refuge for civilians
75 years have passed from D- Day. Underground quarry saved the lives of thousands of civilians.
Unless there was the vast underground quarry where thousands...
Technology met art: Artist Davide Quayola used a robot to recreate a marble Hellenic...
Technology met art, as a London-based artist Davide Quayola used a robot to recreate a Hellenic masterpiece of Laocoon and his Sons.
The masterpiece which...
Dublin: Hidden history of Trinity’s Victorian marble wonder revealed
The hidden history of one of Dublin’s most influential and ground-breaking Victorian buildings has been revealed in a new multidisciplinary project at Trinity College Dublin.
The...
Sculpture by Antonio Canova to sell for over £1 million – after being lost...
An exceptionally important marble bust by one the the art world’s most revered sculptors is set to sell for “in excess of £1 million”...
The islands where most Greek marble statues were made
Two islands of the Cyclades in Greece, have long been famous for their marble riches - but equal treasures were recently found on tiny,...
India: The past preserved in a Marble Palace
In the heart of Calcutta lies a quaint time-bubble, the Marble Palace. I walked in to see and feel what the walls, pillars and...
The Majestic Marble Quarries of Northern Italy
What we admire as pristine white stone was born hundreds of millions of years ago in overwhelming darkness. ‘‘Marmo,’’ the Italians call it —...
