Beliefs Carved In Stone
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Since a federal court ordered the gray granite Ten Commandments monument removed from an Alabama courthouse last year, it has crossed a sacred, mythical threshold that has ignited the faithful.
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A stoneware sculpture thought to be a rare and early example of an unglazed ceramic by Gauguin has been exposed as a clever fake produced by a family of expert forgers.
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Powerset opens the kimono, a bit, hoping to turn skeptics into believers.
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A stone carving that was used as a cat&#39;s headstone has sold for Â£200,000 at auction - five times its estimate. The medieval limestone relief of St Peter was discovered at a quarry by a stonemason Johnny Beeston, from Dowlish Wake, Somerset.
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WASHINGTON --Â A village of small houses that may have sheltered the builders of the mysterious Stonehenge - or people attending festivals there - has been found by archaeologists studying the stone circle in England.
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Within a few decades, pollution could erase thousand-year-old stone carvings at one of Mexico's most important archaeological sites, a new study shows
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Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians were last night locked in dispute over an 800-year-old war crime and a box of 1,600-year-old bones that was meant to have brought them a giant step closer to reunification.
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JERUSALEM -- Archaeologists and clergymen in the Holy Land derided claims in a new documentary produced by the Oscar-winning director James Cameron that contradict major Christian tenets.
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History can help us keep faith in the public square in perspective.
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Researchers using computer analysis have traced the origin of the famed Hope Diamond, concluding that it was cut from a larger stone that was once part of the crown jewels of France.
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Â· South African find is twice as big as the Cullinan Â· Expert predicts feverish bidding on huge stone
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New excavations near the mysterious circle at Stonehenge in southern England have uncovered dozens of homes where hundreds of people lived -- at roughly the same time that the giant stone slabs were being erected 4,600 years ago.
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LONDON - A 1,000-year-old stone carving, which has spent years marking the grave of a British couple&#39;s pet cat, has sold for more than $470,000.
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Some nonbelievers may roll their eyes at the mention of Soap Lake's reputed healing powers, a gift of geology that left an embarrassment of minerals in its saline waters and underlying black mud.
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MENA, Saudi Arabia  - Haj pilgrims pelted stones  at symbols of the devil on Friday, with many saying they were  targeting President Bush and other world leaders seen as  oppressing Muslims.
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Hollywood director James Cameron  displayed on Monday artifacts that he said might have come from  the tomb of Jesus, which once contained his remains, those of  Mary Magdalene, and possibly their son, Judah.
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Archaeologists think they've found a cave where John the Baptist baptized many of his followers &#151; basing their theory on thousands of shards from ritual jugs, a stone used for foot cleansing and wall carvings telling the story of the biblical preacher.