Intricately carved stone balls of unknown purpose, which date to the third millennium B.C. and have been discovered throughout the British Isles—though most frequently in northeast Scotland—continue ...

Some of the most enigmatic human-made objects from Europe's late Stone Age — intricately carved balls of stone, each about the size of a baseball — continue to baffle archaeologists more than 200 ...

There has been quite a lot of speculation around these spheres found at sites on Santorini, Crete, Cyprus, and other Greek Islands with theories around their use including being for some sort of sling ...

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Archaeologists working in the Orkney Islands of Scotland have uncovered two polished stone balls dating back to the Neolithic. The stone balls were found inside the Tresness stalled cairn, an early ...

Archaeologists uncovered six perfectly shaped stone spheres inside a communal building dating back 11,000 years. Each one is polished, uniformly sized, and made from different types of rock — yet none ...

Mysterious stone spheres discovered in ancient settlements in the Mediterranean could be game pieces from the oldest board games ever created, a new study suggests. A large number of small spherical ...

Across the globe, a number of unusual artifacts continue to fuel debate among historians and scientists. The Piri Reis map ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. — The ancient stone spheres of Costa Rica were made world-famous by the opening sequence of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," when a mockup of one of the mysterious relics nearly crushed ...

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—According to a Haaretz report, an international team of researchers led by Ella Assaf of Tel Aviv University suggests that stone spheres unearthed in central Israel’s Qesem Cave were ...