Crowds once mingled below two tall arcades supported by 164-foot-tall columns. But due to earthquakes and unstable foundations, these architectural elements collapsed long ago ...

ROME (AP) — The Colosseum has a bright new look following a restoration using the same travertine marble of ancient Rome to ...

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 ...

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Visit Washington, D.C., and you’ll see something from western Colorado. The marble used in some of the nation’s monuments came from the Yule quarry at Marble, Colo. You can see Yule marble at the Tomb ...

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 ...

One of the marble capitals found by swimmer Gideon Harris Israel Antiquities Authority Several weeks ago, Gideon Harris dove into the waters of the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel. About 13 ...