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Rosetta Stone Detail, Greek Text
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Rosetta Stone Detail, Greek Text

This is a zoomed-in detail of the lower part of the Rosetta stone showing the Greek text. The Rosetta Stone is a large almost complete fragment of a grey-pink granodiorite stela. A decree was carved on this stela using 3 ancient texts in...
Rosetta Stone, Right Side
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Rosetta Stone, Right Side

This is right side of the Rosetta stone. We can recognize an English text carved on this side. The text reads "Captured in Egypt by the British Army in 1801". The Rosetta Stone is a large almost complete fragment of a grey-pink granodiorite...
Vulture Stone, Göbekli Tepe
Image by Sue Fleckney

Vulture Stone, Göbekli Tepe

Göbekli Tepe is a c. 12,000-year-old archaeological site in Anatolia, Turkey. The deepest and oldest Layer III is also the most sophisticated with enclosures characterised by different thematic components and artistic representations. This...
Medieval Stone Masons' Tools
Image by Mark Cartwright

Medieval Stone Masons' Tools

A board showing the tools commonly used by stone masons in the Middle Ages in Europe. On display at Guédelon castle in Treigny, Burgundy, France.
Viking Rune Stone (Sanda, Sweden)
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Viking Rune Stone (Sanda, Sweden)

Top part of a rune stone found at Sanda, Gotland, Sweden, dating to the Viking Age, thought to depict Odin, Thor and Freyr. The runic inscription reads: 'Rodvisl and Farbjörn and Gunbjörn' (The Swedish History Museum/Historiska Museet, Stockholm...
Olduvai Stone Chopping Tool
Image by Jade Koekoe

Olduvai Stone Chopping Tool

Stone chopping tool. 1.8 - 2 million years old. Found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. This chopping tool is an example of the oldest known objects deliberately made by humans. This tool was found with the fossil remains of an extinct human...
Altuna Rune Stone
Image by Gunnar Creutz

Altuna Rune Stone

The Altuna rune stone, showing the fishing trip of Thor when he fights the Midgard Serpent, Jörmungandr, Altuna, Uppland, Sweden.
Neolithic Stone Axe with Wooden Handle
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Neolithic Stone Axe with Wooden Handle

A Neolithic stone axe with a wooden handle, found at Ehenside Tarn. It is on display in the British Museum, London.
Stone of Destiny, Hill of Tara
Image by Germán Póo-Caamaño

Stone of Destiny, Hill of Tara

The Neolithic Lia Fail (Stone of Destiny), Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland, by which the ancient kings were inaugurated.
Stone Age Jade Axe
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Stone Age Jade Axe

Jade, 5000-3600 BCE. Biebrich, Germany. This axe is made of European jade mined in prehistoric quarries in the Italian Alps. It appears to be an object of beauty rather than function. It would have taken several days to polish this jade...
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