The purpose of these so-called 'sun stones', and the reasons for throwing them into ditches en masse, have been something of a mystery – but ancient ice excavated from Greenland may have the answer.

The stone is a large black rock weighing around 122kg ... But it’s an entirely different experience to put wind beneath an ancient piece of rock with a storied history. I’ve never bought ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Archaeologists discovered these enigmatic ancient stones on the island of Bornholm ... the influx of people from the steppe north of the Black Sea into Europe,” Iversen says.