Archaeologists in Finland have uncovered a remarkable wooden snake figurine that possibly belonged to a Stone Age shaman. The carved serpent was found at the Järvensuo 1 site in southwest Finland. A ...

Researchers have discovered a 4,400-year-old wooden staff shaped like a snake near a lake in southwest Finland. As Owen Jarus reports for Live Science, archaeologists Satu Koivisto, Antti Lahelma and ...

Forty years ago, when T.V. Damodaran, who runs a firecracker company, acquired a plot of land named Pambu Kothipara, he was unaware that it was the site of historical importance. The location, ...

Check out Allan Katz’s appraisal of an Edgar Tolson Wooden Adam & Snake carving, ca. 1975 in LSU Rural Life Museum, Hour 1. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise ...

Carvings about 70,000 years old on a snake-like rock in a cave in Botswana indicate that Stone Age people developed religious rituals far earlier than previously believed, a researcher said on ...

A listener brought the item to the BBC Suffolk event at Ipswich Museum on Tuesday, 16 February, 2010. The carving was made by a Japanese prisoner of war in Burma during World War II. The item was ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Collected or purchased by Stewart ...