The pillar is topped with a simple carving of a human face. Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism At one of the world’s oldest Stone Age archaeological sites—Karahantepe in southeast ...

Large monumental cemeteries line the shores of Kenya’s Lake Turkana: hundreds of tightly packed graves beneath round stone platforms ringed with boulders and basalt columns, each flanked by its own ...

CIMARRON, N.M. (KRQE) – Could it be a message left by some of New Mexico’s first explorers? A set of mysterious stone pillars found in the state’s remote northern forest has sparked that question.

When we visit a temple, the first structure we usually see is a pillar outside the sanctum. Most Hindus pay obeisance to the pillar before venturing inside the temple. The Atharva Veda says the pillar ...