The sturdy, well-built structure was likely constructed on dry land at a time when sea levels were much lower than they are ...

Seven thousand years ago, people living on the Atlantic edge of Europe built a massive wall of stone where land met water.

Far below the waves off western France, divers have mapped a massive stone barrier that has been hidden since long before ...

Unbeatable in terms of natural charm and longevity, stone garden wall ideas can make a huge impact on the look and feel of your outdoor space. Whether it’s to create a contemporary feature wall, add ...

Stone structures usually bring Egypt to mind, so most people picture pyramids rising out of the desert as the starting point ...

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 ...

French marine archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery off the coast of Brittany - a massive underwater wall dating to approximately 5000 BC that predates the famous megalithic monuments of ...

In the fall of 2021, Jacob Geersen, a marine geologist now at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, was teaching a one-week field course at the University of Kiel. The class was conducted ...

The wall may be among the oldest hunting structures on Earth and one of the largest Stone Age structures ever found in Europe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Researchers have dated and studied 104 mustatil stone structures from the southern margins of the Nefud Desert in northern Arabia. Lead author is Huw S Groucutt of the Max Planck Institute in Germany.

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