Mysterious Monolith in the Sicilian Channel

Underwater monolith, with its evenly spaced holes, is part of a mystery surrounding the 9,000-year-old site.

By Gemma Tarlach
Nov 30, 2015 12:00 AMMay 17, 2019 10:17 PM
monolith site
A 3-D view of the monolith site. Emanuele Lodolo et al./Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 3 (2015) 398–407

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