A geography teacher in Coventry, England, found an ancient stone while weeding his garden in 2020, but the digging didn't stop from there. The finding of the stone led the teacher and researchers down ...

A stone slab depicting the Roman emperor Tiberius was found during restoration work at the Karnak temple complex in Luxor.

A stone slab covered with 123 hieroglyphic cartouches discovered at an ancient Maya pyramid in Mexico might not be a treasure map to a lost city, but it comes incredibly close. The discovery—located ...

A monumental archaeological discovery in northern China is reshaping what we know about early human settlement and society. Near the city of Yulin in Shaanxi Province, researchers have uncovered an ...

This theory-driven exploration asks whether some ancient stone monuments in Europe might be later reconstructions of much ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An "extremely rare and unusual" ancient stone artifact—thought to be around 2,700 years old—has been discovered in ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray ...

A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement in the Netherlands presented a puzzle for researchers of Roman history. Because of its distinct grooves and marks, the ...

Ancient Greek weightlifter Bybon went down in history for the feat of lifting a 316-pound stone overhead with one hand.