To Jeffrey Wolin, the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center in New York City represent the limestone ”landscapes” of mountains moved by men in the stone quarries of southern Indiana. Wolin, a ...

CAIROCAIRO — French archaeologists have unearthed hundreds of 3,000-year-old colored limestone blocks believed to have been used to build the sacred lake walls of a temple dedicated to the goddess Mut ...

Dozens of limestone blocks provide a possible glimpse into the past. "We had been digging to create the foundations for the two of the four fountains to date and in the first courtyard we excavated we ...

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The construction of Egyptian pyramids has been a source of endless wonder and debate, capturing the imagination of historians, archaeologists, and just about everyone else. These huge structures, like ...

Government is expected to earn a revenue of over Rs 6,700 crore after Chhattisgarh successfully conducted mine lease auction for two large limestone blocks. Government is expected to earn a revenue of ...

New Delhi: Mineral bearing states Odisha, Karnataka, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra have put 16 iron ore and 23 limestone mines under the hammer for the first phase of auction. While Karnataka has ...

The state will be the first to take this approach since the auctioning was made mandatory for allocation of non-coal blocks. (Image: PTI) Having failed to elicit response in the recent auction from ...

Jammu, Nov 25: The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has estimated that Jammu and Kashmir holds nearly one billion tonnes of limestone reserves, a senior central government official has said.

The Rajasthan government has called for open auction of a copper block and four limestone blocks in the state. A pile of limestone at a cement factory. Udaipur: The Rajasthan government has called for ...