At one of the world’s oldest Stone Age archaeological sites— Karahantepe in southeast Turkey—researchers have unearthed a T-shaped stone pillar bearing a carved human face. Dating back some 11,000 ...

An image supposedly showing an elephant carved into a natural stone pillar in India has been circulating on social media for years. An April 2021 posting to Reddit, for example, was captioned: ...

Photo taken on Oct. 6, 2025 shows a T-shaped pillar carved with a human face at the Karahantepe archaeological site in southeastern Türkiye. A T-shaped pillar carved with a human face has been ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have found a 12,000-year-old stone pillar with a carved human face—the oldest known example of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An aerial view of Göbekli Tepe, an 11,000-year-old Stone Age site in what is now Turkey. In ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Nearly six years after KRQE introduced you to a mystery in northern New Mexico surrounding carved stone pillars, we may finally have some idea where they came from and who ...

CIMARRON, N.M. (KRQE) – Could it be a message left by some of New Mexico’s first explorers? A set of mysterious stone pillars found in the state’s remote northern forest has sparked that question.

These buildings at the site of Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey are more than 11,000 years old, making them some of the world’s earliest monumental structures. The settlement includes circular ...

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 ...