Archaeologists have long puzzled over the elegant stone jars buried with Tutankhamun, their inscriptions intact but their ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Alabaster is a fine-grained form of gypsum (anhydrite calcium sulfate). It is a soft stone ...

I am the eighth generation here,” says Ahmed Ali Mohammed Elhofni, standing amid pale stone dust in his family-owned ...

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 ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. Herod ...

History is alive for Vincent Kaydahzinne. He recalls creating a mother-daughter sculpture from an alabaster stone. Tradition had it that a mother and child had once lived near where he found the stone ...

LUXOR, Egypt, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Amidst the ancient temples and tombs in Egypt's Luxor, skilled artisans continue to transform alabaster -- a luminous stone once cherished by pharaohs -- into ...