A runestone is a large stone carved with runic inscriptions — usually ... turned out to belong to a single ancient runestone. The stone had been shattered and reused in several graves.

A MYSTERIOUS stone carved nearly 1,700 years ago has been unearthed in a region rich with Biblical history, where Jesus is said to have walked on water. The volcanic slab, inscribed with Ancient ...

A study published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture in June examines 12,000-year-old carvings that ... capabilities of ancient people were far in advance ...

Nearly 13,000 years ago, carvings were etched into a large stone pillar at Göbekli Tepe ... They show that these ancient people were capable of recording their observations of the sun, moon ...

Although two of the sites were excavated as far back as the 1990s, nobody at that stage realised that they represented a large and previously unknown ancient ... sculpture (a huge stone boar ...

Remnants of the ancient barrier zigzag through this arid ... Recently unearthed stone carvings “may have endowed the stepped pyramid with special religious power,” the archaeologists reported.

Markings on a stone pillar at a 12,000 ... Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey – an ancient complex of temple-like enclosures adorned with intricately carved symbols – could record an ...

Made of granite, the stone lay near other large pieces ... to determine when it was carved, who carved it and what the monument was used for in ancient times, according to the post.

Markings on a stone pillar at a 12,000 ... Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey -- an ancient complex of temple-like enclosures adorned with intricately carved symbols -- could record an astronomical ...