Marble column weighing about seven tons from Roman basilica at the Ashkelon National Park being put into place (credit: Ronit Rozen/National Parks and Nature Reserves Authority) ...

Clearly, the stars of the show were the six marble columns on the front. Each weighed 48 tons. According to reports, crowds gathered to watch a special steam engine wrangle them into place.

A load of 1,800-year-old marble columns has been found among the wreck of a ship in Israel. Dating back to the age of the Roman Empire, this is the oldest sea cargo of its kind ever discovered in ...

Euston Station in central London has deteriorated to the point where its marble columns are held together by bands because “it would fall off without them”, the rail minister has said. Lord Hendy of ...

According to Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist Kobi Sharvit, the columns are part of some 44 tons of marble blocks that appear to be from the wreck of a ship that was on its way to a ...