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Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

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The most ambitious recent dry-stone-walling projects, such as the multimillion-dollar effort to restore the stone walls of Italy’s Cinque Terre, are in service of historical preservation.

Archaeologists have uncovered an incredible 3,000-foot-long ancient stone wall submerged in the Baltic Sea, which could rewrite our understanding of prehistoric life in Europe.. Known as the ...

Ancient fortifications in Europe had melted stone walls—but it wasn’t battle damage. In Scotland, some 70 hill forts, such as Dunagoil on the Isle of Bute, had stone walls that were partially ...

An ancient stone wall used by hikers on the Italian peninsula was built to trap a famed gladiator, officials said. Ministry of Culture When imagining the epic era of Roman gladiators, one name is ...

These settlements were densely populated. They consisted of central kraals (livestock enclosures, or lesaka in the Sesotho language) surrounded by homesteads built of stone. Kaditshwene was the most ...

Archaeologists and university students excavated a stone wall in southern Spain and confirmed a decades-old theory. Photos show the ancient structures found at the site.

Read more: How pots, sand and stone walls helped us date an ancient South African settlement. Conversely, the settlement of Kaditshwene, despite its size, had the least visible kraals.

An ancient stone wall used by hikers on the Italian peninsula was built to trap a famed gladiator, officials said. Ministry of Culture When imagining the epic era of Roman gladiators, one name is ...