Six-hundred-year-old stone carvings have been revealed on a beach on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The petroglyphs were found just outside Waianae and represent people and abstract symbols carved into ...

A bulbous piece of wood bears a series of nubby nodules that feel just a little bit sci-fi. A gourd-like shape carved out of black and red marble features a curious nose-like appendage that springs ...

PEORIA — Bill Kwolek would never say what his abstract sculptures were about. “He was more interested in what people were seeing in it,” said Jim Kwolek, Bill’s son, during a phone interview from his ...

An unassuming grass-covered stone mound outside of Dublin, Ireland, may be home to the world's oldest visual representation of a solar eclipse. The Loughcrew Cairns in Meath County, Ireland, date back ...

Since the Stone Age, stones have been the bearer of culture and the earliest civilisations. Over time, aside from making weapons, humans began to incorporate stones into building shelters. Later on, ...

A small town in Central Mexico is home to around 200 open-air carving workshops, from which an astonishing array of sculptures continuously emerges. Leonel Uribe Franco works on a carving in an ...

An engraving carved into dolomite stone more than 39,000 years old in a seaside Gibraltar cave suggests that Neanderthals were capable of symbolic thinking—once thought unique to modern humans, ...

Obadiah Buell grew up in the thin, scruffy woods of north Sullivan in a house his back-to-the-lander parents built from architectural salvage in the late ’60s. He didn’t go to school. Instead, he ...