Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but only in New England are they nearly ubiquitous. That’s due to a regionally unique combination of hard crystalline bedrock, glacial soils ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A 400-pound stone that fell from the Western Wall to the egalitarian prayer plaza was removed Wednesday for examination by archaeologists. The Israel Antiquities Authority used ...

The stone wall, which is 1.8 meters tall and 7 meters wide and runs east to west, is believed to have been a boundary that divided the central part of the castle and warriors’ residences.