In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Plato provides a timeless insight into how we are often "prisoners" of our mind, in that we are born into a world of "shadows", which we confuse with reality. Wisdom ...

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed ...

This Arkansas cave lodge lets you sleep inside a massive natural cavern in the Ozarks, complete with modern comforts and ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

Morgan O’Hanlon: As you’re driving through West Texas and through Balmorhea, this kind of big open desert, you get to the ...

Archaeologists have found a prehistoric human skeleton deep inside a flooded cave system on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

VAIL, Ariz. — Exciting things are happening at Colossal Cave for the first time in decades. The team there has uncovered a few new parts of the cave, and they actually went inside them. "Everyone says ...