Long before human communication evolved into incessant tapping on computer keys, people scratched on eggshells. Don’t laugh—researchers say a cache of ostrich eggshells engraved with geometric designs ...

A colorful pebble bearing a sequence of linear incisions may be the world's oldest engraving. The object, which will be described in the April issue of the Journal of Archaeology, dates back about 100 ...

An engraved stone carved around 10,000 years ago may be the world’s oldest example of a lunar calendar. The rare pebble — found high up in the mountains near Rome, Italy — dates back to the Stone Age, ...

Stone carving has always been considered one of the finest arts, mankind used, to emote, his expressions since time immemorial. HT Image In the earlier days, stones were chiselled both as tombstones ...

Archaeologists have discovered a mysterious engraving of a Pictish warrior with a rather cheeky bottom. The engraving was found in a Pictish stone in Perth’s McDiarmid Park, and depicts a male figure ...

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 ...