Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

In this video, I carve a whale sculpture out of epoxy and wood using various woodworking tools. Watch as this unique piece ...

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.

A look inside a Queens studio where Buddhas, sneakers and swans are carved with reverence and the knowledge that beauty, like ice, is fleeting.

Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

The people at the center of this discovery are known as the Sambaqui. For nearly 7,000 years, these groups lived along the ...

Several harpoons and the remains of whales on the south coast of Brazil show that people 5,000 years ago were able to hunt ...

New evidence from Brazil reveals organized whale hunting began thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

When winter settles over the olive groves, Palestinian artisans and their families venture out to the hills, delicately pruning branches from the ancient trees to form a base for their craft. Here, in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From card: "This is a copy of ...

A woman who creates life-like wooden sculptures of birds has won a national wood carving competition. Maggie Port won first place in the bird of prey category at the British Decoy and Wildflower ...