A self-confessed ‘eccentric’ has spent 30 years hand-digging an other-worldly labyrinth of underground caves 20ft below the garden of his home. From the outside, Francis Proctor’s home looks perfectly ...
I entered a small sinkhole leading into a cave where I had previously discovered large animal leg bones and a narrow passage blocked by rock. While digging around the obstruction, I discovered that ...
Archaeologists and students digging in Blätterhöhle cave uncovered a 9,000-year-old fireplace (above), flint arrowheads and a bone harpoon. Photo from LWL-AfW Olpe / Michael Baales Inside a cave of ...
A century ago, a local priest and a group of students began digging beneath a towering rock overhang in Bojnice, a town in western Slovakia. What they uncovered would help shed light on the lives of ...
Europe is rich in history, but its splendid castles, antique churches, and age-old ruins tell only part of the story. To dig even deeper in time — much deeper — visit a cave. Some of my favorites, in ...
Thousands of years ago in a cave on Hispaniola, an unusual chain of events left behind a rare scientific treasure: bees nesting inside fossilized bones. After giant barn owls repeatedly brought prey ...
Europe is rich in history, but its splendid castles, antique churches, and age-old ruins tell only part of the story. To dig even deeper in time – much deeper – visit a cave. Some of my favorites, in ...