Carved stone balls are mysterious and uniquely Scottish objects. They are thought to date from the late Neolithic period, more than 4000 years ago. We do not know what they were for or how they ...

Yr-Old 'Amazing' Stone Objects Resembling Human Figures With Distinct Features Baffle Archaeologists Nine mysterious stone-carved objects resembling human figures were discovered in an excavation in ...

Archaeologists in Scotland shed “genuine tears” upon ... The team unexpectedly found the 5.5-foot-long (1.7 meters) carved ...

Hunting animal scene on carved Celtic Pictish stone, Shandwick, Easter Ross. When they weren’t fighting the Romans – or each other – the Scottish tribes spent most of their time farming and ...

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it because a volcanic eruption covered the sky ...

Graffiti carved on ancient standing stones on the island of Arran is a heritage crime, Historic Environment Scotland has said. Staff from Scotland's heritage agency found the markings at Machrie ...

From the carved, standing stones still found in the region around ... known evidence for an idea that has held sway in the Scottish Highlands for at least 1,500 years—that Loch Ness is home ...

National Galleries of Scotland are celebrating the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), The remarkable Scottish ...

The researcher who is trying to trace the “hidden” fragments of the Stone of Destiny believes she has decoded another mystery of the ancient artefact – Roman numerals which were etched on to it.