If you’ve just hit level 110 in Legion and spotted the new Investigate the Eye of Azshara Order Hall mission, you’re probably wondering what the hell a Carved Shell is, and why it’s so important. The ...

The ancient, big-bodied relatives of modern-day humans not only ate freshwater shellfish, but engraved their shells and used them as tools, a new study finds. Researchers in Java, Indonesia, ...

Liu started to make shell pictures in 1984, when she graduated from art school. "I liked traditional Chinese realistic paintings, especially meticulous figures, flowers and birds. To be frank, shells ...

A llama carved from a spondylus shell and a cylindrical laminated gold foil object were the contents of a carved stone box -- an offering -- found at the bottom of Lake Titicaca. The offering, found ...

Chris Thompson is preserving his Muscogee heritage through the art of shell carving. Chris Thompson is a Muscogee shell carver. Using various marine snail and clam shells, he's preserving the heritage ...

A member of the now-extinct hominid species Homo erectus engraved a geometric design on a sea shell nearly half a million years ago, long before the earliest evidence of comparable etchings made by ...