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 ...
Boxes of shells are piled up in his studio, along with half-finished works, such as shell paintings and sculptures. Walking ...
Liu Miaoling, 50, and her fellow craftsmen in Dalian, Liaoning province, made a 16-meter-long and 0.8-meter-wide version out of shells. It took more than 10 of them about three years to complete 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, ...
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 ...
As a boy, Dan Townsend would carve tikis and totems, sea turtles and dolphins into coconut shells. Growing up in the Everglades and Florida Keys, he'd run bareback on horses, dive and spearfish in the ...
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 ...
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 ...