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 ...

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

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 ...

A road project in central Scotland has revealed one of the country’s most intriguing archaeological finds in decades: an ...

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 ...

When a society collapses, humans need places to gather. A 5,000-year-old ceremonial site shows how ancient people dealt with ...

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

The mysterious alignments of standing stones scattered across Brittany in France have intrigued archaeologists and tourists alike for centuries. Now, fresh discoveries at the Le Plasker site near ...

Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ...

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 ...