Visibility has always been important in people’s decisions about where to live and how to arrange their spaces. People make connections with what they can see. Being able to see prominent landmarks, ...

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 ...

Beneath the surface of the Baltic Sea lies a world long forgotten, a time capsule from the end of the last Ice Age. As archaeologists increasingly turn their attention to submerged landscapes, the ...

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 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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered dozens of ancient "stone grenades" along the iconic Great Wall of China, according to a report. Researchers made the find in the ruins of a building located in a section ...

Archaeologists in Cyprus uncovered rare fortifications, palace remains, and preserved monuments at ancient Palaepaphos.

French artist Jean Charles Blais had a surprise when he discovered an ancient engraved stone beneath the plaster of his studio wall during repairs for a water leak. Located on the French Riviera, ...

The Mayans set themselves apart as masters of engineering, accomplishing constructive feats once thought to be impossible for their time. They thought of everything — how the shadow of the stairs of ...

A local stone wall located on the edge of a field, each stone placed by a Yankee farmer well over a century ago. Credit: James W. Spain / For the Monitor Sit with me upon my stone wall under this ...