VICTORIA — A carved stone pillar found at low tide on a beach in Victoria last summer is an Indigenous cultural treasure, the Royal B.C. Museum has confirmed. The museum is working with the Songhees ...

At one of the world’s oldest Stone Age archaeological sites— Karahantepe in southeast Turkey—researchers have unearthed a T-shaped stone pillar bearing a carved human face. Dating back some 11,000 ...

CIMARRON, N.M. (KRQE) – Could it be a message left by some of New Mexico’s first explorers? A set of mysterious stone pillars found in the state’s remote northern forest has sparked that question.

A large pillar with images of Buddha decorating it is being displayed at Preah Norodom Sihanouk-Angkor Museum in Siem Reap province. The rare Khmer artefact is available for the public, students and ...

An image supposedly showing an elephant carved into a natural stone pillar in India has been circulating on social media for years. An April 2021 posting to Reddit, for example, was captioned: ...

A silent face has resurfaced after more than 11,000 years underground. In the arid hills of southeastern Turkey, archaeologists have uncovered a stone pillar featuring a carved human face, the first ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Nearly six years after KRQE introduced you to a mystery in northern New Mexico surrounding carved stone pillars, we may finally have some idea where they came from and who ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An aerial view of Göbekli Tepe, an 11,000-year-old Stone Age site in what is now Turkey. In ...

These buildings at the site of Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey are more than 11,000 years old, making them some of the world’s earliest monumental structures. The settlement includes circular ...

Photo taken on Oct. 6, 2025 shows a T-shaped pillar carved with a human face at the Karahantepe archaeological site in southeastern Türkiye. A T-shaped pillar carved with a human face has been ...

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 ...