Supported by Photographs and Text by Walter Hodges The small town of Escolásticas, built on ancient volcanic stone, carves a ragged path through a high desert ... spikes into a large piece ...

The pillars are located on a large pedestrian bridge, the width of an eight-lane highway, built over the desert plain of Mina. On the day of Eid-ul-Adha, pilgrims stone the largest of the three ...

The Saudis also rebuilt the three pillars. Previously, the pillars resembled tall obelisks. Now they are stone walls 85-feet long, allowing many more people to pelt them with pebbles at the same time.

Nearly 13,000 years ago, carvings were etched into a large stone pillar at Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site in southern Turkey. According to researchers, they could be evidence of the oldest ...

Time and nature took their toll, wearing away at the softer stone ... Soak in the vast desert landscape of Wadi Rum, broken only by sandstone pillars and large goat-hair tents of the Bedouin ...

stone enclosures, Sweatman said. Large, T-shaped pillars are arranged in circular patterns with two “twin” pillars at their center, a nod to sky-deity mythology, according to the study.

Their excavation uncovered a large cavity with the remains of nine bodies buried about 5,000 years ago. These bodies were buried with accessories shortly after their deaths. Stone pillars marked ...