Based on the book "Built from Stone: The Westerly Granite Story," CARVED FROM STONE: LEGACY OF A GRANITE TOWN shows Westerly granite as the "gold standard," with hundreds of blacksmiths, carvers, ...

Three-dimensional models of Neolithic carved stone balls — some of the most enigmatic objects from Europe's late Stone Age — are now online, letting anyone interested in ancient wonders view many of ...

Hundreds of elaborately carved stone balls dating from Prehistoric Scotland have been discovered over the centuries, but their purpose remains a mystery. More than 500 of the stone balls have been ...

“Leap and the net will appear” was carved into a Maine river stone sitting in a Camden gift shop. I was unaware river rocks with carved advice are a thing, but apparently they are. “Leap and a net ...

Archeologists have found a rare symbol stone thought to have belonged to a community known as the Picts around 1,500 years ago. The Picts—a name thought to refer to "painted ones" in Latin since they ...

This story was originally published on myAJC.com on Sept. 28, 2016, five days after Roy Faulkner, the man who carved Stone Mountain’s Confederate monument, died. It's a warm day in September and, with ...

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 ...

When Lene Brandt and her husband, Anders Nielsen, were preparing to tear up the linoleum floors in the kitchen in their home in the village of Mosekær, in Denmark, they probably expected the normal ...

granite stone sitting in Kevin Conley’s office at the Barre Monument Company. Conley and the stone have a lot in common—both look as if they’ve been there a while, and neither is going anywhere ...