Miles below the Earth’s surface are some of the most dangerous caves in the southeastern U.S. “You are in an alien world,” Jan Simek, archaeologist and anthropology professor at the University of ...

Massive Native American drawings – which remained unseen in an Alabama cave for more than 1,000 years – have been unveiled by a team of scientists. It’s the largest known cave art ever discovered in ...

Jan Simek receives funding from the Archaeological Institute of America/National Endowment for the Humanities. On a cold winter’s day in 1980, a group of recreational cavers entered a narrow, wet ...