A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee species — about 90% — are actually solitary and build their nests in the ground or ...

For Cleota Rae Reed, ceramics was not just an art, it was a way of life. Reed was a celebrated Syracuse ceramist and published art historian specializing in the Arts and Crafts movement. She died on ...

Some 12,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers populated the caves of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, surrounding the Rio Grande border between Mexico and West Texas. These people left arrowheads, earth ovens, ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Paleolithic (between 45,000 ...

Neanderthals didn’t just survive Europe’s Ice Age landscapes – they ventured into deep caves and made art. What they left isn’t figurative like the later animal scenes of Homo sapiens. Instead, it is ...

The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed an installation evoking the ancient Roman dome. Building it was complicated. “Ground,” a permanent installation by ...

Durham University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

In the late 1950s, archaeologists discovered a cave in the Rio Zape Valley of Mexico. There were ancient human remains in the cave dated to between 660 and 1430 A.D., many of which belonged to ...

Pity the Romans. Their sculpture is often compared unfavorably to that of the Greeks. While the work of their Attic cousins is celebrated for being high-minded and idealistic—all those ripped bodies, ...

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Julian Charrière made his name creating art inspired by — and interrogating — nature. Now, his new water and sound installation is open to underground adventurers in Reims. By Nazanin Lankarani In ...