This 12th-century abbey features breathtaking medieval stone carvings and sculptures depicting knights and saints, yet often remains overshadowed by its famous neighbour ...

Today, the same quarries that built Rome with their distinctive pock-marked travertine are still being dug out to build a new ...

Dating back to the 12th century, this medieval monastery in Ireland boasts spectacular stone sculptures depicting knights, saints and animals ...

In a video for the V&A Museum, stone carver Miriam Johnson hand-carves a pair of hieroglyphs “using both sunken relief and raised relief techniques”. The vid ...

Bent over a slab of dark granite, carefully chiselling the name of the deceased with practiced precision, 54-year-old Abdul Aziz Kadkol represents a fading tradition of hand-crafted stone carving that ...

My Brother-in-Law Got Drunk and Ruined Our Couch. I Didn’t Think Getting Him to Pay Would Be So Controversial.