The Drake Company Stone Cutting and Polishing Works once dominated the east side of the falls of the Big Sioux River. The company was started by James Haines Drake in 1883. The operation was comprised ...

It may look innocuous now, but this little stone may have killed someone 700 years ago. The rough, kidney-shaped object was found in a medieval cemetery in Poland, and a new analysis has revealed it ...

Have you ever found a Petoskey stone on a trip up north? They are so spectacularly beautiful that it’s no wonder they are designated as Michigan’s State Stone. The only problem with Petoskey stones is ...

Researchers have uncovered strong evidence that the ancient Chinese used diamonds to grind and polish ceremonial stone burial axes as long as 6,000 years ago -– and incredibly, did so with a level of ...

HUDSON, Ohio - A technology developed by a Hudson native is changing the way people keep their loved one’s ashes and is available at funeral homes in Greater Cleveland. Parting Stone takes the ashes ...

SANTA CLARA, Cuba, May 3 (JTA) — Barely a five-minute taxi ride from Cuba’s imposing shrine to Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara is a lesser-known monument honoring the six million Jews killed in the ...

Polished stones discovered near Stonehenge may have been part of a 4,000-year-old goldsmith's toolkit, experts have claimed. Archaeologists from the University of Leicester detected traces of gold on ...

Authorities in Szczecin cited fears by the Institute of National that visitors might think the perpetrators of the crimes were Poles. WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Authorities in the Polish city of Szczecin ...