Back home, Peter marked the puka, or cave entrance, on a digital map and planned to return later—with the landowner’s permission—to see where the opening might lead. Author Joshua Foer ...

Within the caves, the monochrome lifelessness of the desert gave way to an exuberance of color and movement. Thousands of Buddhas in every hue radiated across the grotto walls, their robes ...

A tourism brochure for New Zealand's Waitomo Caves from 1928 What’s waiting for us within the mysterious depths of a cave? It’s been the stuff of legend and campfire stories for centuries.

Cenotes in the Yucatán Peninsula are time capsules preserving remnants of Maya culture and fossils of extinct megafauna Martin Broen Freelance writer The underwater caves of the Yucatán ...

Marina stood at the mouth of the Rising Star cave and looked inside. Outside, it was the rainy season in this grassland part of South Africa, home to jackals and porcupines and cobra snakes and ...

Foreign divers, including Ivan Karadzic (2nd left) and Erik Brown (3rd right), were part of the extensive rescue operations The rescuers who worked to save the group trapped in a Thai cave were a ...

The Thai cave complex where 12 boys and their football coach became trapped is a snaking system of caverns and crevices which posed a range of problems for rescuers. Some stretches of the Tham ...

A geology professor from the University of South Florida discovered a 5600-year-old stone bridge in an ancient cave that ...

The first Buddhist cave monuments at Ajanta date from the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. During the Gupta period (5th and 6th centuries A.D.), many more richly decorated caves were added to the original ...

Arizona has numerous famous caves — some readily open to the public, some not. Some, like Kartchner Caverns, are renowned for their stunning beauty, filled with awe-inspiring formations that ...

14,700 years ago, in a cave in Somerset, our ancestors were eating other people. Museum research reveals these Ice Age Britons weren't eating human flesh out of necessity but as part of a ritual. 'The ...