Each marble column was constructed of a monolith main shaft made of one complete piece of marble measuring almost seven meters and alone weighing about 7.5 tons, a lower pedestal and a capital on ...

JERUSALEM — Moving a 4.7-ton piece of an ancient marble column is never easy. When the piece is from a column that was once part of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, making sure it is ...

Bob Guccione’s Mansion Had Marble Columns With His Face Carved Into Them By Jessica Pressler , a writer living in New York. She has contributed to New York Magazine since 2007.

A marble column from Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace, is on display at Zhengjue Temple of Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park in Beijing on Friday. An exhibition displaying all seven marble columns ...

A repatriated marble column on display in Zhengjue Temple in Yuanmingyuan. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] After a long odyssey overseas, seven marble columns from the ruins of Yuanmingyuan, or ...

The cargo shipment of marble items had been known to the Israel Antiquities Authority for years, but because it was covered in sand, its exact location was unknown. A marble Corinthian column ...

Columns carved from stone are the most expensive. A simple 8-foot-tall, roughly 12-inches-wide column from common marble would typically cost between $5,000 to $15,000, ...