Georgia's Stone Mountain Park — once home to the Ku Klux Klan and the site of the largest Confederate carving in the country — has been a point of contention for years. The 3,200-acre park ...

Protected by a mask, Ulrike Zugelder uses a diamond-coated power grinder to shape a 125-pound block of marble into a representation of an oxtail vertebrae, sitting atop the stone at left, July 18 ...

Human Interest Large stone carving linked to 12th century Christianity discovered during home renovations: ‘Exceptionally significant find’ By Alex Mitchell Published Sep. 11, 2024, 3:37 p.m. ET ...

Stone Mountain contains the world’s largest Confederate monument, a carving of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

The enormous stone slab measures 18 by 10 feet (5.5 by 3 meters) and is estimated to weigh about 13.2 tons (12 metric tons). Although the team has not analyzed the rock yet, Schmitt said it may be ...

3D model of the newly discovered stone carving. The recovered fragments are shown in dark grey and depict Ashurbanipal in the center flanked by Ashur on the left and Ishtar on the right.

After they draw out their ideas, “I say, ‘OK, translate that drawing in clay, trying to be sympathetic to the stone that we have,’” Valdez said. “And (then) people say, ‘I like the feet of these,’ ‘I ...