Life-size stone tigers and baseball bats guard the entrances.
I tried to imagine all those summer travelers jostling through Grand Canyon and Zion National Parks, only a Western-size stone's throw away.
And, they say, one sample with three or four characters on a thumbnail-size stone is hardly sufficient to establish the existence of a writing system.
Architecturally, the Incas surpassed all others in their use of intricately cut, giant-size stone blocks, at the sites of Machu Picchu, Sacsahuamán, and Ollantaytambo.
The artist herself, slightly breathless from deadline pressure, was working to finish a life-size stone portrait of David, which will be a focus of "Staged in Stone," her coming exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase.
Along promenades and temple steps innumerable votive offerings sprouted: panoplies from defeated enemies, bronzes of heroes and gods, the life-size stone youths and maidens known as kouroi and korai, smiling their secret smiles.
They are best made in a good-size stone mortar, with each of the 10 or 12 ingredients, some of which are toasted first, added in succession while you pound away.
Ever since the meteor exploded somewhere over this impoverished Siberian town, Larisa V. Briyukova wondered what to do with the fist-size stone she found under a hole in the roof tiles of her woodshed.
DEPUTATSKOYE, Russia — Ever since the meteor exploded somewhere over this impoverished Siberian town, Larisa V. Briyukova wondered what to do with the fist-size stone she found under a hole in the roof tiles of her woodshed.
Sometimes I'll hold a stone and put it in place, and then because the pinning has to go in from behind the stone, rather than bending over and trying to see what size stone I need, I'll just push my hand in and judge whether it needs to be an inch or an inch and a half thick.
