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 ...

As products of nature, shells have developed a bond with people since the days of yore. The connections can be traced to the period of cave people whose images show them wearing shells. During the Qin ...

The carved boulder, which weighs about 60 pounds and measures less than a foot across, “may have represented a totem or a mythological or spiritual figure,” says archaeologist Omry Barzilai. Clara ...

Some of the tables are simple and elegant, with a single shell carved onto the apron. Others are exquisitely crafted with rococco leaves and goblin faces. A sofa and a chair have a slightly Oriental ...

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 ...