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...
A brief history of the Welsh slate quarries
The slate quarries of north-west Wales have just been nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site status. Once, slate carved from here was sent all...
New discovery sheds light on ancient quarrying technique
Recent discoveries reveal how the ancient Egyptians moved stone blocks from the alabaster quarries of Hatnub, north of modern day Luxor, during the reign...
Aliki Ancient Marble Quarry in Thassos Island, Greece
The partially submerged ruins of a white marble quarry used in ancient Greece for over 1,200 years.
White marble was highly sought-after in ancient Greece,...
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...
Rosso antico και porfido verde antico: laconic but luxurious stones!
Article by Peter Tzeferis*
Marmor Taenarium and rosso antico were the names given by the Greeks, but especially the Romans, in the red marble, which,...
The ancient quarries of Alyki in Thassos island, Greece
Thassos island is one of the most known and important marble mining centers of ancient times. It is a place where someone can see...
Queen Victoria marble portrait saved from export to tune of £1m
Cambridge museum to display brutally realistic bust of the late monarch
The least amused portrait of Queen Victoria ever created, showing the monarch with brutal realism as...
The Sleeping Giant in Greece’s Naxos
A giant ancient statue is lying on its back for centuries on a hill at the Greek island of Naxos.
The Kouros of Apollonas, also...
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”...
