Stone: Ancient

The <n>Trelleborg Viking Ring Fortress</n> in Denmark, built by King <n>Harald Bluetooth</n> c. 980. Photo by <n>Robert Clark</n>.

Cypriot <n>Stone votive relief of an eye</n> from the 4th century B.C. at <n>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</n>.

Artwork by <n>Yasha Lewis</n> and <n>Mariana Yampolsky</n>.

<n>Cup-and-ring petroglyphs</n> from the British Isles.

The <n>Carschenna petroglyphs</n> in Switzerland, photographed by <n>O. G. S. Crawford</n> in 1923.

A bas-relief carving of raised hands at the <n>Kom Ombo Temple</n> in Egypt.

A moss-covered stone carving in <n>Wistman's Wood</n>, Dartmoor, England.

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

Wet Glacial Stones Greeting Card by Brenda Tharp

Neolithic megalithic art from the 1980 book <n>Riddles of the Stone Age</n> by <n>Jean McMann</n>.

<n>Wall of Light, Aran</n>, a 2005 photograph by artist <n>Sean Scully</n>.

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