FUZHOU, March 11 (Xinhua) — Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, is home to a rich intangible cultural heritage, ...

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

After a gentle nudge from his mum, Richard found his passion for stone carving and swiftly decided to create his own business. His mentor Louis Francis thinks he has huge potential but needs to ...

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 ...

"Horse treads on the Hun" is a stone carving, most known and impressive of those found in front of Huo Qubing's tomb. It calls up images of the young general galloping across fields in battle with ...

"This is not a humble monument to the Georgians who fought in the Civil War," one Georgia native said of the carvings on ...

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 ...

Craft artist Chen Lizhong (1st L) instructs students on Shoushan stone carvings at a studio in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, March 5, 2025. Fuzhou is home to a rich intangible ...

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 ...

Seal carving dates back to the Spring and Autumn period in China (770-476BC), when the tradition of signing documents with personalised engraved stone seals dipped in vermilion cinnabar paste began.

However, the only experience any living person had with carving mountains into art was Borglum himself, at Stone Mountain in Georgia. Although he did not complete that project, a number of ...