Unlike the elaborate chess pieces owned by nobility, this rook was carved from local sandstone ... gold, or rock crystal," Oleson observed. "The world of low-class players doesn't appear in ...

From intricately designed pawns to boards from luxury brands, check out the most expensive chess sets in the world.

Carved with stone tools out of mammoth ivory, the tiny head measures just 1.9 inches (4.8 centimeters) tall and 1 inch (2.4 cm) wide. The sculpture appears to represent a woman's face, with ...

Engraved some time between 50 BCE and 275 CE, the ancient stone was eventually broken apart and scattered across multiple burials, while some of the inscriptions suggest that the runes may have ...

Cave art has mesmerized people for so long, but a talented creator has turned New Mexico's underground into settings for ...

The Lunar Year Of The Snake With Jade 2 oz Coin features an unusual design: a 30 mm silver coin embedded with a coiled snake in jade stone. In addition to the stone, the reverse features a snake ...

A search is under way to trace up to 30 missing fragments of the Stone of Destiny - the ancient coronation stone of Scottish kings. The pieces were separated from the artefact when it was secretly ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but steady erosion. Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about ten minutes.

carved from rosy-hued sandstone. For many tourists, the visit to the ancient city in southwest Jordan ends here. But Petra has much more to offer, including more than 600 stone facades and an ...

Nearby the site of that discovery, INRAP uncovered a treasure from a much different empire—one that, judging from the well-preserved nature of the artifact, may have been under a great deal of ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...