Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

The most ambitious recent dry-stone-walling projects, such as the multimillion-dollar effort to restore the stone walls of Italy’s Cinque Terre, are in service of historical preservation.

Launched by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), this three-year project is focused on a site near ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an incredible 3,000-foot-long ancient stone wall submerged in the Baltic Sea, which could rewrite our understanding of prehistoric life in Europe.. Known as the ...

An ancient burial site discovered in 1976, this excavated mound contains a stone structure that is most likely the remnants of a tomb, where shards of pottery suggest funerary offerings were made.

Archaeologists and university students excavated a stone wall in southern Spain and confirmed a decades-old theory. Photos show the ancient structures found at the site.

Ancient fortifications in Europe had melted stone walls—but it wasn’t battle damage. In Scotland, some 70 hill forts, such as Dunagoil on the Isle of Bute, had stone walls that were partially ...

An ancient stone wall used by hikers on the Italian peninsula was built to trap a famed gladiator, officials said. Ministry of Culture When imagining the epic era of Roman gladiators, one name is ...

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 ...

An ancient stone wall used by hikers on the Italian peninsula was built to trap a famed gladiator, officials said. Ministry of Culture When imagining the epic era of Roman gladiators, one name is ...