The monolith is basically a 3 m (9.8 ft)-tall pillar made of metal sheets riveted into a triangular prism, eerily reminiscent of the monoliths featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey, an iconic 1968 ...

U.S. customs officials in Miami on Tuesday said they seized ancient carved stones from Cameroon known as Ikom monoliths that had been exported ... with human facial features in its department for ...