It is often the case that when the past speaks to us in the modern world, its messages are written in stone. Sometimes these voices from long ago provide a record of a lost and forgotten civilization.

WAWA, CANADA—For the past seven years, archaeologist Ryan Primrose, director of the Ontario Centre for Archaeological Education, has studied mysterious symbols carved into the bedrock deep in an ...

What on Earth? looks at strange Aboriginal Australian carvings and weird green lights that can be seen from the ISS. Aboriginal Australians are amongst the oldest continuous human cultures on Earth ...

Mysterious carvings deciphered at the Göbekli Tepe archaeological site in Turkey suggest the world’s oldest monument – about twice as old as Stonehenge – is a solar calendar built to memorialise a ...

Hawaii’s human history began long before the arrival of Americans—and a recent discovery is shining new light on that past. On the island of Oahu, near Waianae, shifting sands caused by seasonal ...

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what ...

Mysterious rock carvings engraved into strange shapes are baffling UK archaeologists. One resembles a heart, another a human footprint. Aron Mazel and Stan Beckensall, who stumbled across the unusual ...

The ancient city of Teos lies on an isthmus reaching outward from Turkey's west coast into the emerald waters of the Mediterranean. Over 2,000 years ago, it was one of many Ionian Greek cities that ...

There’s something about slicing into a piece of fresh wood that brings Chris Hammack to life. “My wife thinks it’s weird to love whittling as much as I do,” Hammack said from home in Mexico. “It’s ...