Stories from the edge of explanation.
About 4 min readIn central Ohio stand the largest earthen enclosures on Earth — a circle, an octagon and a square built two thousand years ago to track the Moon’s 18.6-year cycle. For a century, part of it was a golf course.
About 4 min readMore than 300 near-perfect stone spheres, some weighing 15 tons, lie scattered across Costa Rica’s Diquís Delta — carved centuries ago by a people who left no writing to explain them.
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 readIn one of the driest places on Earth, the Nazca people drew hundreds of figures on the desert floor — a hummingbird, a spider, a monkey — by moving stones by hand. Most archaeologists now link them to water, ritual, and walking.