From Stone Carving To Folk Motifs: Bihar’s Pattharkatti, Bavan Booti And Pidia Painting Earn GI Tag Status

Bihar has added three more traditional crafts to its cultural heritage and it received GI tag. The list of the art includes Pattharkatti Stone Carving, Bavan Booti, and Pidia Painting received the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Two Brothers Are Helping Keep Armenia’s Stone Carving Tradition Alive

Jackie Flanagan Pangelinan, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Two brothers set about chiseling slabs of milky gray limestone, each using a hammer bluntly pounding the end of a long ...
The Denver Post

A 5,000-year-old stone carving may be the world’s first drawing of an eclipse

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An unassuming grass-covered stone mound outside of Dublin, Ireland, may be home to the world’s oldest visual representation of a solar eclipse. The Loughcrew ...