Feb 5, 2026
Cyclopean masonry is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and with clay mortar or no use of mortar. The boulders typically seem unworked, but...
Dec 4, 2025
What Made Roman Stonemasonry Distinctive? Roman stonemasons inherited techniques from the Greeks and Etruscans and subsequently pushed the craft to new engineering and architectural heights. Their work ranged from finely carved marble monuments to massive utilitarian...
Oct 7, 2025
An amazing archaeological discovery in Romania is throwing new light on the advanced stoneworking skills of the Dacians, an ancient civilisation that thrived in the Carpathian region prior to the Roman conquest. While trekking in a forested area near Hunedoara...
Aug 11, 2025
St Paul’s Cathedral is an icon of the London skyline — as much as the Shard, the London Eye, Big Ben and that building with the three fans that are mysteriously never spinning. Wherever you go, you can’t help but notice its looming spire and majestic dome. However, it...
Jun 23, 2025
A quarryman splits or cuts rock in the quarry and extracts the resulting blocks of stone. The cut or split pieces are collected and transported away from the extraction surface for further refinement. A sawyer stonemason cuts these stone blocks into dimension stone,...
