Excavation in a gravel quarry in central Switzerland revealed a 2,000-year-old Roman stone wall. The discovery reveals some ...

Archaeologists rarely expect clarity when surveying the ocean floor, since water tends to erase context rather than preserve ...

Far below the waves off the coast of Brittany, France, divers have mapped a massive stone barrier that should not exist, at least not according to the standard story of early European prehistory.

Visibility has always been important in people’s decisions about where to live and how to arrange their spaces. People make connections with what they can see. Being able to see prominent landmarks, ...

Archaeologists working near Yulin in Shaanxi Province have recorded 573 ancient stone-walled fortress settlements. The Yulin ...

In the summer of 1976, a ground fire burned through a vegetated area on the island of Guernsey, revealing a granite slab protruding from a high mound of earth. The ensuing excavation revealed an ...

Researchers have recently made a remarkable discovery along the River Nile in Egypt and Sudan. A report shared by Phys.org tells us that the experts have uncovered a vast network of stone walls that ...

A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to construct ...

French artist Jean Charles Blais had a surprise when he discovered an ancient engraved stone beneath the plaster of his studio wall during repairs for a water leak. Located on the French Riviera, ...

A local stone wall located on the edge of a field, each stone placed by a Yankee farmer well over a century ago. Credit: James W. Spain / For the Monitor Sit with me upon my stone wall under this ...