At a cathedral in York, England, expert stonemasons are combining cutting-edge technology with ancient technique to ... stared back at them: a large stone statue of a bestial creature in mid ...

A religious shrine ... in the ancient heart of Jerusalem. The place of worship, carved into the rock near Temple Mount, is made up of eight rooms with an altar, a sacred standing stone, and ...

OTSUCHI, Iwate Prefecture--A natural disaster led to the transformation of traditional stone guardian ... but the statues were not swept away. Oshachi Tenmangu shrine, unfortunately, was wiped ...

A central dais, or platform, found at one of the ancient shrines. Photo from the Penn Museum Nearby, archaeologists found fragments of statues ... stone bowl set into the brick floor of the shrine ...