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 ...

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 ...

Jiang Xinzhong (right) and his apprentice Zhou Ming work on an intricate shell carving, featuring a vase, flowers and an auspicious Chinese character fu (good fortune), at an art museum in Pingtan, ...

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 ...