The toe bone of a prehistoric deer carved with lines by Neanderthals 51,000 years ago is one of the oldest works of art ever found, according to a study released Monday. The discovery is further ...

During the Middle Ages, people ventured into the cave now called Einhornhohle to collect unicorn bones. It’s tempting to wonder whether those medieval cryptid hunters would be disappointed or ...

A 51,000-year-old carved bone fragment may be one of the earliest works of art, researchers announced in a paper published this week in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. The work, made from a ...

A nearly 130,000-year-old bear bone was deliberately marked with cuts and might be one of the oldest art pieces in Eurasia crafted by the Neanderthals, researchers say. The roughly cylindrical bone, ...

Photo by Yana Deynega Artisans from Russia’s far north work passionately to carve figurines, knives, jewelry and other objects from mammoth and walrus tusks. For centuries, the art of the bone carving ...

Tucked away inside Szobrasz Studio in Taylorsville, a self-taught artist — and now something of a YouTube star — coaxes works of art from natural materials. Using wood, horn, fossil ivories, bone and ...

A carved human bone from an archaeological dig in the U.K. is offering new insight into the grisly culture of prehistoric cannibals. The forearm bone discovered at Gough’s Cave in Somerset, western ...

A Berkshire Eagle reader presented a mystery: What did his ancestor carve on a powder horn in 1776? Before we consider what Benjamin Markham, of Tyringham, carved, we might clear up two other ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a carved alligator made of ...

The T-shaped pillar is the first with a face to be found in the Stone Age archaeological sites of Turkey’s Taş Tepeler ...