The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere – a latticework of dry ...

Archaeologists have made a sensational discovery beneath the Baltic Sea - a 3,000-foot-long stone wall that could upend our understanding of Europe's prehistoric past. Dubbed the Blinkerwall, this ...

Every place in the world has its own story, waiting to be heard. And there are some places in the world that are nothing less ...

A cache of 400-year-old stone grenades inscribed with orders warning guards to watch out for enemies has been discovered at the Great Wall of China near Beijing. The finding shows the astonishing ...

After more than a century of puzzling over their origins, no one truly knows where the walls stretched across the Bay Area came from.

Though it’s often talked about as if it’s a single continuous structure, China’s legendary Great Wall is actually a series of stone fortifications that crawl across the country’s changing ...

Swaths of the Great Wall of China are under siege from erosion. An unlikely “living skin” of organisms, or biocrust, is helping safeguard them.

Object Details Author Lovell, Julia 1975- Notes Originally published: Great Britain : Atlantic Books, 2006. Contents List of maps and illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on romanization and ...

I’ve written about the history of stone walls and how to interpret them in the field, and developed the Stone Wall Initiative to draw public attention to their importance in New England.

Robert M. Thorson created and coordinates the Stone Wall Initiative, an online resource on the historic stone walls of New England. He is an advocate for their conservation and management, and a ...