floats in seawater, is translucent when polished, and smells fragrant when burned — may have been perceived as imbuing the material with magic, making Słupcio a powerful Stone Age amulet.

making Słupcio a powerful Stone Age amulet. Kristina Killgrove is a staff writer at Live Science with a focus on archaeology and paleoanthropology news. Her articles have also appeared in venues ...

Houlihan's closed in September 2022, and the Stone Tavern originally planned to open in December 2023, but permit approvals among other factors caused delays. After over a year of delays ...

she happened upon a 3,800-year-old scarab amulet. “We were walking along the path, and then Ziv bent down—and out of all the stones around her, she picked up this particular stone,” said ...