Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it ...

A mysterious stone tablet carrying engravings of the Ten Commandments sold for $5 million at auction last week, Sotheby's announced. Sotheby’s workers hold one of the most widely known and influential ...

There is no other stone like it in private hands," said Sharon Liberman Mintz, a specialist on Jewish texts for Sotheby's. The slab eventually made its way to the Living Torah Museum in Brooklyn ...

a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed from ritual gathering sites on Bornholm, an island in Denmark ...

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

Artificial neural networks are being used to decipher ancient texts, from the classical stalwarts of Greek and Latin to China’s Oracle Bone Script, ancient divination texts written on cattle ...

AI reveals portions of Greek text in ancient Herculaneum scrolls South Korean AI tools decode Joseon dynasty archives faster than ever AI unearths unknown parts of ...

Modern chimpanzees select rock tools in similar ways to Oldowan hominins, early humans who used stone tools that date ... use by nonhuman primates and ancient hominins, as the archaeological ...

Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard quickly recognised that the stone was unusual. Its surface was engraved with three distinct scripts: hieroglyphics, demotic, and ancient Greek. Scholars in Napoleon ...