but the know-how involved in this ancient craft is fading, with only a few of the owners still making stone seals by hand. Seal carving dates back to the Spring and Autumn period in China (770 ...

A MYSTERIOUS stone carved nearly 1,700 years ago has been unearthed in a region rich with Biblical history, where Jesus is said to have walked on water. The volcanic slab, inscribed with Ancient ...

So I was almost alone in a serene environment to appreciate the beauty of an ensemble of sculptures and carvings that were built into the sides of a cliff face of a remote range of hills almost ...

Federal judge halts Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship 2,000-year-old carvings of celestial ... relationship is stronger than most An ancient volcano blotted out the sun ...

Discoveries of ancient artifacts are relatively common in Greece, often unearthed during construction projects. A headless statue believed to be 2,000 years old has been found inside a black ...

A 2,000-year-old headless marble statue has been discovered in a rubbish bag near Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city. The 31-inch sculpture, depicting a woman in a robe, was found abandoned ...

Glass designer Michael Rudak and craftsman John Galvin draw inspiration from Orkney's ancient standing stones for the whisky's striking presentation. “If the 54 Year Old showcases birth ...

But the citrus genus has a surprising history, popping up everywhere from ancient Rome and the Renaissance ... he survived to an old age," Professor Mabberley says. It turns out science appears ...

SCIENTISTS have finally cracked the ancient mystery of 1,400-year-old "alien rings" rising from the hills which were fuelling a tirade of conspiracy theories. Locals had been puzzled by the series ...

The Sterkfontein excavation site, which exposes the ancient deposits that once formed underground and ... been limited to samples that are only a few tens of thousands of years old due to the ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are ... on the Red Planet may have finally solved a 50-year-old mystery: why one half of Mars is so drastically ...