Chinese researchers have successfully restored two shell paintings from the Warring States period (475-221 BC) in north China's Hebei Province, according to a recent research article published in the ...

More than 2,000 years after an artist in ancient China picked up a brush and a clam shell, researchers are getting the first glimpse at what they actually painted. Clams were eaten by people of the ...

Sitting in front of a cutting wheel in his studio full of seashells, artisan Jin A'shan takes a few pieces, fashions them into different shapes and quickly polishes them. Within minutes, ordinary ...

JAMESTOWN, N.C. (WGHP) — Most of us throw oyster shells away but not Virginia Washburn. “Even the crazy shaped [shells] have purpose,” said Washburn, who makes them shine. “Even though they are ...

Shell artist Jin A'shan works on his peacock shell painting at his studio in Dalian, a coastal city in Northeast China's Liaoning province. [Photo provided to China Daily] Sitting in front of a ...