Endless possibility is not a notion easily conveyed in video games. Sandbox titles like Grand Theft Auto seem limitless at first, but that illusion disappears once you discover their boundaries.

FROM a cursory glance, the lines on this small, brown stone could be mistaken for a natural formation. In fact, it is the first known drawing ever made by human hands. “This is the beginnings of ...

As over-committed adults, many of us cannot remember the last time we sat down and colored with crayons. I’m not talking about playing tic-tac-toe with a crayon on the back of your kids’ menu while ...

The world’s oldest drawing might be easy for a casual observer to miss: a 38.6mm (1.52 inch) long flake of silcrete (a fine-grained cement of sand and gravel) with a few faint reddish lines drawn on ...