Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, is a city where time stands still. Ancient architecture and monastic libraries whisper ...

Perched dramatically over 1,000 feet above sea level on a tufa ridge in the province of Grosseto in southern Tuscany ... The village seems to rise from the cliff like a fairy-tale fortress of stone ...

Its long story is etched into its dramatic landscapes, seen in medieval monasteries, hilltop churches and the ancient streets ...

I know you feel awful. I know you spent the whole night trying to not look at the New York Times’ historically unreliable needle, which proved to be intolerably accurate this time around.

Its undulating, rose-tinted valleys are speckled with the towering tufa formations dubbed “fairy ... Choose from cosy cave rooms or one with arched stone walls, each fitted out with all the ...

This means the archaeological record of human tool use is deeply skewed towards the much hardier stone. All this suggests that the origins of human technology could have been profoundly misunderstood.

The Stones of Stonehenge: a Full Description of the Structure and of its Outworks. By E. Herbert Stone. — Mr. Stone is to be congratulated on having written a book which has long been wanted for ...

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