To Scott Smith, old bricks or cobblestones are like gems. And he's made a successful – and unusual – career out of mining them from almost any construction or demolition site from Maine to Chicago.

ROME, March 25 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Pompeii have unearthed an ancient building site that sheds light on construction techniques used by the Romans to make iconic structures such as the ...

Camp fires built in Kaibob National Forest routinely make use of stones once used for prehistoric pueblo construction. Exposure to the fire's heat makes chemical analysis and carbon dating difficult.

It turns out that the very stones used to build the Alamo came from the San Antonio Zoo. Alamo officials on Thursday confirmed that limestone from a historic quarry that once existed at the zoo’s ...