Strange stone spheres found during archaeological digs across ancient Greece may have been tokens used in a Bronze Age board game, a study has concluded. The putative playing pieces — which are ...

There has been quite a lot of speculation around these spheres found at sites on Santorini, Crete, Cyprus, and other Greek Islands with theories around their use including being for some sort of sling ...

The suburbs of Čada, Milošová and Klokočov contain many sandstone balls with a diameter of 30 to 300 centimetres. The balls are called Megoňky due to the locality where they were found – a stone ...

FINCA 6, Puntarenas — Everything I had read about Costa Rica’s pre-Columbian stone spheres indicated that it was a total mystery why they were made. But when I visited the museum between Sierpe and ...

Costa Rica has presented a bid for its pre-Columbian stone spheres to be inducted into the exclusive World Heritage list by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO ...

Specialists from Costa Rica and Mexico are restoring three pre-Columbian stone spheres, rare examples carved from limestone, at the Finca 6 Museum Site in Palmar de Osa in southern Costa Rica. The ...

Archaeologists from the University of Bristol have suggested that mysterious stone spheres found at various ancient settlements across the Aegean and Mediterranean could be playing pieces from one of ...