The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...
The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...
In autumn 2024, Helge Titland, a 76-year-old mountaineer, spotted wooden stakes poking through melting snow at 4,600 feet on ...
A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.