Ancient stone carvings have long captured the imagination of historians and enthusiasts alike, with some suggesting these artworks depict aircraft-like machines. The presence of such carvings in ...

Spanish archaeologists recently announced the discovery of an ancient stone with perplexing symbols carved onto it. The symbols, experts believe, are actually an ancient alphabet. If their ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC surrounded by deities worshipped in the Mesopotamian civilisation. The ...

New research shows Stone Age humans created structured signs and symbol systems 40,000 years ago, long before formal writing ...

A group of villagers in central Thailand walked to the edge of the Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary, then stepped into the forested oasis. The sanctuary, part of four connected parks creating a wildlife ...

Archaeologists in Germany found a 1,800-year-old stone artifact, a carved “giant,” that was of a pillar first discovered in 1908, photos show. Photo from ArchaeoBW and Ch. Hoyer, shared by Stuttgart ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh may have found the world’s oldest lunisolar calendar on the pillars of Gӧbekli Tepe, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic complex in Turkey, according to new research. The ...

Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we believe about the origins of art and self-awareness on its head. In the early ...

A geography teacher in Coventry, England, found an ancient stone while weeding his garden in 2020, but the digging didn't stop from there. The finding of the stone led the teacher and researchers down ...

TIVOLI, Italy(AP) — Long ago, when Romans wanted to build a new temple, they would head to the nearby quarries of Tivoli, chisel out blocks of porous rock called lapis tiburtinus — now known as ...