Archeology

Aerial view of <n>Stonehenge</n> in Wiltshire, England. Photo by <n>Joe McNally</n>.

Brand identity for jewelry brand <n>Bruta</n>.

Aerial view of the <n>Sassanian city of Ardashir-Khurreh</n> in Firuzabad, Iran, from the 3rd century AD.

<n>Poulnabrone Dolmen, County Clare, Ireland</n> (1967), a photograph by <n>Paul Caponigro</n>.

A <n>Spiral Petroglyph</n> carved into rock.

A nighttime photograph of <n>Stonehenge</n>, a monument aligned with the <n>Major Lunar Standstill</n>.

<n>Teobert Maler</n> with a carved stone from the mausoleum of the high priests at <n>Chichén Itzá</n>, 1892.

Bronze <n>Head of an Akkadian Ruler</n>, thought to depict King <n>Sargon of Akkad</n>. 23rd century BC.

<n>Pierre Vanni</n>'s 2012 poster for the <n>Festival Accès(s)</n>, featuring paper sculptures of prehistoric tools.

<n>Spiral Petroglyph</n> at <n>Signal Hill, Arizona</n>. Photo by <n>Atala Toy</n>.

Archaeologist <n>Walter Alva</n> excavates the <n>Tomb of the Lord of Sipán</n> in Peru, 1987. Photo by <n>Bill Ballenberg</n>.

<n>Anthropomorphic stone stelae</n> from <n>Tyritáke</n>, an ancient town of the <n>Bosporan Kingdom</n> in Crimea.

A collage of <n>Southwestern Native American</n> shells, bone beads, and turquoise, c. 1200 BCE.

Archaeologist <n>Matthew Stirling</n> with the <n>Olmec</n> colossal head, <n>La Venta Monument 1</n>, excavated in 1940.

The <n>Fyrkat</n> Viking ring castle in Denmark, photographed by <n>Ted Spiegel</n> for <n>National Geographic</n> in 1970.

Pottery from the <n>Single Grave culture</n>, the Danish branch of the <n>Corded Ware culture</n>, c. 2800-2400 BC.

<n>Robert Smithson</n>'s land art, <n>Double Negative</n> (1969-70). Photo by <n>Gianfranco Gorgoni</n>.

Photo by <n>Mischa de Stroumillo</n> for <n>The Zone Zine</n>.

The <n>Jarlshof Prehistoric and Norse Settlement</n> in Shetland, Scotland.

<n>Parthian</n> <n>Beak-spouted jug</n> from Iran, 1st century BC–1st century AD, from the collection of <n>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</n>.

A <n>Late Minoan II</n> terracotta storage jar from Knossos, c. 1450-1400 BC, at the <n>Ashmolean Museum</n>.

<n>The Astronaut</n> geoglyph, created by the <n>Nazca culture</n> in the Nazca Desert, Peru.

<n>Stonehenge</n> in Wiltshire, England, photographed by <n>Isamu Noguchi</n>, c. 1955.

A tourist copies hieroglyphs at the <n>Karnak Temple Complex</n> in Egypt, 1927.

Excavation of an <n>Olmec colossal head</n> in Southern Mexico.

A <n>Cabeza colosal Olmeca</n> in Veracruz, Mexico. Photo by <n>Juan Guzmán</n>, 1957.

The <n>Doll Tor Stone Circle</n> in Derbyshire, England. Photo by <n>Tomfourwinds</n>.