Dezeen promotion: after investigating the history and properties of alabaster stone, Barcelona-based Amarist Studio has created a set of designs that treat the material like a "moldable plastic ...

Learn how residue trapped inside a Xerxes-era alabaster jar revealed a long-overlooked tradition of opium in ancient Egypt. What were Egypt’s alabaster jars actually used for? Their stone and ...

Excavators clearing a burial shaft in the Bubasteum necropolis at Saqqara have found three stone sarcophagi still sealed in ...

Its sand-colored concrete walls loom over Temple Street like an urban butte, and tons of marble, bronze and limestone gleam within. Yet, in the end, there’s no earthly element in the new Cathedral of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s often easier to appreciate the imagery in a great work of art than to understand exactly how it was made, and how an artist’s use of any specific material affected the creative ...