"It's one of the most important historic artifacts that I've ever handled." In 1913, workers were carrying out excavations prior to the construction of a new railway line in southern Israel when they ...

A mysterious stone engraved with carvings nearly 1,700 years old has been discovered in a historically rich region believed to be where Jesus Christ is said to have "walked" on water. The volcanic ...

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not ...

New study demonstrates that certain incised stone artefacts from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic, specifically from Manot, ...

a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed from ritual gathering sites on Bornholm, an island in Denmark ...

Antiquity 2025 The researchers worked out that these various pieces fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle, revealing that the fragments make up a single stone engraved with an "unusual" mixture of ...

Piecing together fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone shows they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and may have ...

Figure 23 depicts an engraving awl, which can be used to drill holes in wood ... they are found in the archaeological record less often that stone tools. Yet we know that for the fine work necessary ...

A recent study has shed new light on the cognitive and cultural complexity of human societies during the Middle Paleolithic ...