As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed from ...

“It is one of the long-term projects that the UNESCO World Heritage site pursues to document engraved stones, related fragments and bas-relief carvings that exist in Persepolis by a team of ...

Climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Bornholm analyzed ice cores from Greenland’s ice sheets and demonstrated that a major volcanic eruption occurred on ...

The discovery has taken place during the fifth season of an archaeological survey, probing a sophisticated water management system beneath the ruins of the Persepolis, archaeologist Ahmad Ali Asadi ...

A "unique" and mysterious collection of engraved stone plaques were seemingly sacrificed by prehistoric people in Scandinavia following a devastating volcanic eruption around 4,900 years ago, a study ...

Hugh Tanchuck grew up going to cemeteries with his father. He remembers weaving in and out of rows of headstones, fixating on the ages of the deceased. “Oh, they were 50,” he would think to himself.

The engraved stone recently discovered on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau is the only known Qin Dynasty (221 B.C.–206 B.C.) engraved stone still preserved at its original site and the highest-altitude one ...