Unlike Stonehenge, where the stones were hauled from miles away, the pillars of Gobekli Tepe were chiselled out of the neighbouring limestone plateau. Some of these hefty monoliths tip the scales ...

This unfinished subterranean chamber, an unfinished chamber within Khufu's Pyramid, lies 90 feet (30 meters) below the surface of the plateau ... chipped away at the limestone bedrock to build ...

The Egyptian pyramids on the Giza Plateau, among the most impressive structures in human history, looked striking when first built. The pyramids were covered in polished white limestone that ...

The southern part of the island of Oland in the Baltic Sea is dominated by a vast limestone plateau. Human beings have lived here for some five thousand years and adapted their way of life to the ...

The mobile dunes also provide an excellent and well-oxygenated habitat for sand-diving invertebrates and reptiles, while incised wadis in the limestone plateau harbor rare relict plants. The area has ...

The southern part of the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea is dominated by a vast limestone plateau. Human beings have lived here for some five thousand years and adapted their way of life to the ...