Obsidian is an energy stone admired and used for its protective properties and metaphysical benefits. Obsidian is used to protect its wearer. How Obsidian is formed is symbolic of its metaphysical ...

Ever had a headache so big, you felt like drilling a hole in your head to let the pain out? In Neolithic times, trepanation – or drilling a hole into the skull – was thought to be a cure for ...

Archaeologists excavating at Melka Kunture uncovered almost 600 obsidian stone tools and identified the oldest known “workshop,” study says. Photo from the Italo-Spanish archaeological mission at ...

A stone tool found in Syria more than 80 years ago has sharpened scientists’ understanding of Stone Age networking. Someone probably shaped the obsidian chunk into a usable tool near its Turkish ...