On a recent walk in downtown Boulder, I stopped in front of the First United Methodist Church at 14th and Spruce streets where, years ago, I clearly saw a little girl’s face carved into stone. It took ...

When divers surfaced from the cold waters of a Polish lake earlier this year cradling a carved wooden face, they were holding a survivor from a millennium ago. The find, lifted from the bottom of Lake ...

The discovery in southeast Turkey of an 11,000-year-old pillar carved with a face could reframe our understanding of how early humans expressed themselves. The face staring out from a 135 cm-tall ...

LAKE LEDNICA, POLAND—Notes from Poland reports that when underwater archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University retrieved a section of a wooden beam from the bottom of Lake Lednica, they were ...

The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced an archaeological discovery of exceptional importance within the framework of the ambitious Taş Tepeler Project, an initiative that brings ...

In the mountains near Leavenworth, just about everybody has a sign in their home. It’s a running joke that you’re not allowed to own a rustic cabin without an inspirational message posted somewhere ...

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 ...

Archaeologists at Karahantepe in southeastern Turkey unearthed a limestone pillar bearing a human face with a sharp nose, deep-set eyes, and a faint smile. “Until now, we believed the stones we were ...