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 ...

Robert M. Thorson (University of Connecticut) (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robert M. Thorson, University of Conn… ...

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 than wonders. Creations so grand that they leave us amazed—the beauty, ...

Comprising around 1,700 stones, the wall spans over 3,000ft, reaches widths of up to 7ft, and peaks just under 3ft high in many places. Believed to date back more than 10,000 years to the ...

With Jews around the world already on edge and preparing to observe the first Tisha B’Av since Oct. 7, the fallen stone could be read as ominous — or fortunate, as no one was injured in the ...

The stone grenades were found near a section of the Great Wall at Badaling that was built by Ming dynasty rulers in the 16th century. (Image credit: Dolly442 at English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)) ...

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 ...

Researchers virtually reconstructed how the wall likely appeared during the Stone Age. P. Hoy, University of Rostock, model created using Agisoft Metashape by J. Auer, LAKD M-V ...

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

The family hiking in front of me under the sweltering South Bay sun had no idea they’d just stopped to tie their shoes on one of the Bay Area’s oldest unsolved mysteries.

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 ...