If you're looking to upgrade your home with natural stone, travertine may be a great option to save on costs upfront. Known ...

Today, a good deal of the world’s travertine—including the floor tile with the jawbone, according to the dentist—is quarried in Turkey, from a region where the stone famously forms natural ...

Dentist Discovers Human-Like Jawbone and Teeth in a Floor Tile at His Parents’ Home Scientists are planning to study the specimen, embedded in travertine from western Turkey, in hopes of dating ...

Renovation relic: Man finds hominin jawbone in parents’ travertine kitchen tile Yes, travertine often has embedded fossils. But not usually hominin ones.