A basalt tablet bearing 60 mysterious symbols emerges from a Georgian lake, suggesting the existence of a lost writing system ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -A set of carved stone animals - a fox, a vulture and a wild boar - is shedding light on the way prehistoric people told stories after being unearthed by archaeologists in ...

A set of highly decorated chalk cylinders, carved in Britain more than 4,000 years ago and known as the Folkton drums, could be ancient replicas of measuring devices used for laying out prehistoric ...

Archeologists have found a rare symbol stone thought to have belonged to a community known as the Picts around 1,500 years ago. The Picts—a name thought to refer to "painted ones" in Latin since they ...

“Leap and the net will appear” was carved into a Maine river stone sitting in a Camden gift shop. I was unaware river rocks with carved advice are a thing, but apparently they are. “Leap and a net ...

The carved head is made of red sandstone. University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute An intricately carved head made of red sandstone has been found on one of Scotland’s Orkney ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian archaeologists have unearthed a large centuries-old statue of a turtle at the Angkor temple complex. The 56-by-93 centimeter (22-by-37 inch) carved stone turtle ...

Old Vermont cemeteries have stories to tell, and they are cut deep into the stone of almost every grave. Civilizations have always tried to address the nature of life and death in how they memorialize ...