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.

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 ...

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 ...