Chongqing's Dazu and Ziyang city in Sichuan are known for their stone carvings — 150,000 in all — among which the Anyue ...

In Dazu County, some 165 kilometers away from Chongqing, are more than 40 sites of stone carvings with over 50,000 statues of Buddha completed from the late Tang Dynasty (618-907) to the Song ...

The European Stone Carving Festival will be in Halifax on the 24 and 25 of May 2025. 120 stone carvers from across Europe ...

For thousands of years, sculptors and architects in India have used stone because of its durability. Until 2500 some years ...

The Green Man was originally carved and fitted to cover up a crack in one of the arched windows on the outside of Fountains Abbey. The statue itself is a man's head, with vines flowing out of his ...

I’ll carve most anything. I’m supposedly retired,” said Hovland-based artist Jim Vannet. “Well, I never worked so hard in my ...

The sandstone fragments analysed in the study were unearthed during excavations at a grave site in Svingerud, Norway, from 2021 to 2023. The fragments, found in separate graves, were dated to between ...