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: ...

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 ...

On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of carved stone pillars has forced archaeologists to rethink how civilization began. The site, known as Göbekli Tepe, is roughly 12,000 years old, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Markings on a stone pillar at a 12,000 year-old archaeological site in Turkey likely represent the world’s oldest solar calendar, created as a memorial to a devastating comet strike, experts suggest.

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 ...

Long before river gauges or satellites existed, ancient Egyptians used stones to read the Nile’s behaviour. Along the riverbanks in places like Elephantine Island in Aswan, the Temple of Kom Ombo, and ...