Stories from the edge of explanation.
About 4 min readMore than 2,100 carved stone jars, some weighing tonnes, stand scattered across the Xiangkhoang Plateau of Laos — the funerary monuments of an Iron Age civilisation that left no writing behind.
About 4 min readMore than 3,000 granite standing stones march in long parallel rows across the moorland of Brittany, raised by Neolithic hands some 6,500 years ago — and archaeologists still do not know why.
About 4 min readIn the podium of a Roman temple in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley sit three limestone blocks, each weighing around 800 tonnes. A short walk away, in the quarry, lie even larger ones — including a 1,650-tonne block discovered in 2014, the largest stone ever quarried in the ancient world.