In regards to the basin, it likely had a ceremonial use, based on finds of pottery and oil lamps discovered very nearby.

Archaeologists recently discovered a massive 2,000-year-old stone basin in ancient Gabii, Italy, revealing early Roman public architecture from Rome's powerful rival city.

Archaeologists have unearthed four enigmatic stone megastructures in the Adriatic Hinterland of Europe, shedding light on the ...

The Stone Demonstrator produces only 6,443kg of CO2 – less than 3% of the others. The stone is cut from quarries and in this ...

Thousands of monumental structures built from walls of rock in Saudi Arabia are older than Egypt's pyramids and the ancient stone circles of Britain, researchers say – making them perhaps the earliest ...

Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains. Digitally stitching together 11,000 images, they created a complete map of the ...

Digging into the dry soil of a field in southern Germany, archaeologists hit some rocks and painstakingly unearthed a massive stone structure. They’d expected to find something at this site — but what ...

A team of researchers has uncovered extensive remains of a semi-submerged ancient settlement along the northern coast of ...

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / KPBS+. Deep in the Arabian Desert lie thousands of enigmatic stone megastructures whose true form is visible only from the sky. Follow ...

Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we believe about the origins of art and self-awareness on its head. In the early ...

Some ancient structures are so impressive that people have trouble believing humans could have built them. From massive stone ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...