pestle and cutting board in your kitchen are modern versions of manos and metates—ancient cooking implements found in archaeological sites around the world. A mano is a hand-held stone tool used ...

The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods. The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient ...

Photo from Time Team, shared by Forestry England In a forest of the United Kingdom sits an ancient standing stone. For years, many believed the green-gray slab was just an “isolated monument ...

Mohammad Sabet-Eqlidi, who presides over the directorate, confirmed that the stone was discovered on the evening of April 2 (Farvardin 13, the final day of Nowruz vacations) near the entrance road to ...

Hidden Heritage Guwahati: In an archaeological discovery, remnants of an ancient stone temple have ... likely remnants of another stone temple plinth. The ruins, partially buried in vast paddy ...

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and northeastern Algeria — shows that Stone Age populations who lived there more than 8,000 ...