With oval-shaped holes for eyes and a small ridge for a nose, the mask resembles something a 1970s hockey goalie (or Jason in “Friday the 13th”) might have worn.

But this mask was carved out of stone 9,000 years ago, perhaps in one of the world’s first farm towns […]

Source: Haunting, 9,000-Year-Old Stone Mask Discovered in a Field in the West Bank