The approximately 9,000-year-old grave of the shaman of Bad Dürrenberg is one of the most spectacular finds in Central European archaeology. Excavated under considerable time pressure in 1934, ...

Gardens, oases, devotions and ghosts — but also performance, jazz, ficus trees in Venice and mango in Dakar. It sounds like a ...

Will AI Accelerate Or Undermine The Way Humans Have Always Innovated?. In graduate school, my experimental archaeology professor told a student to create a door socket – the hole in a door frame that ...

Korean shamanism, known as mudang practice, blends ancestral spirits, household gods, mountain deities, and even modern historical figures into a living spiritual network. Some shamans claim to be ...

For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change in beads, sequins and Lite-Brite colors. The artist Nick Cave at his ...

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“Even with careful planning, training, and equipment, unforeseen situations can arise that require immediate assistance,” Terrell County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland said Desiree Anello is a ...

On a brisk winter day in Chicago last month, mammoths seemed to return for a fleeting afternoon. The ancient leviathans lumbered along the lakefront, the city skyline behind them. But visible through ...

A researcher was rescued on Sunday after being injured inside one of the deepest Texas caves in Terrell County, officials said. Texas Game Wardens A researcher was rescued on Sunday after being ...

TERRELL COUNTY, Texas (KETK) – Several West Texas law enforcement agencies helped rescue a researcher on Sunday morning after she was injured inside of Sorcerer’s Cave in Terrell County. Indonesian ...

On a cerulean blue Tuesday in early January, artist Nick Cave directs an uncanny scene unfolding along the Chicago lakefront. Three enormous mammoths lumber south toward the city’s silhouetted skyline ...

Valentine's Day looked different for everyone this year. For one person, a journey into one of Texas's deepest caves took a dramatic turn. A rock became loose and fell, striking a female researcher in ...