Work has begun on the reconstruction of some of the 50 massive marble columns of the basilica in the Ashkelon National Park as part of an overall facelift for the park, and next week the fourth pillar ...

JERUSALEM — Moving a 4.7-ton piece of an ancient marble column is never easy. When the piece is from a column that was once part of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, making sure it is transported ...

ROME — Vivid scenes of battlefield decapitations and female prisoners dragged off by their hair, carved into the 1,840-year-old marble Column of Marcus Aurelius towering over central Rome, are being ...

Moving a 4.7-ton piece of an ancient marble column is never easy. When the piece is from a column that was once part of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, making sure it is transported safely is all ...

ROME (AP) — The Colosseum has a bright new look following a restoration using the same travertine marble of ancient Rome to recreate parts of columns from 2,000 years ago. Thousands of Romans once ...

A marble column from Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace, is on display at Zhengjue Temple of Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park in Beijing on Friday. An exhibition displaying all seven marble columns ...

A repatriated marble column on display in Zhengjue Temple in Yuanmingyuan. [Photo by Wang Kaihao/China Daily] Johan Wilhelm Normann Munthe (1864-1935), a Norwegian who once worked as an cavalry ...

MORRIS TOWNSHIP — In a parking lot on the edge of a forest at the Delbarton School in Morris Township, nearly 100 large pieces of intricately carved marble, some moss covered, sit on bowed wooden ...