A 50,000 year-old cave painting found in Indonesia tells us about the evolution of humans and the importance of visual ...

The oldest cave art in the world has been discovered, but scientists don’t think it was humans who did it. Cave paintings dating back 24,000 years have previously been uncovered in Spain.

JERUSALEM — Long before cave paintings and figurines appeared, our ancestors were already expressing themselves on stone ...

One hypothesis is that the art is reflects "sympathetic magic," a ritual aimed at bringing good luck to the hunters. The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and ...

The object was found at Coto Correa in Las Chapas, a site that has been known since the 1950s, when archaeologists first ...

This was also in accord with the age of pottery fragments ancient artists left in the cave. The problem is seeing the paintings. The cave ceiling is only 60cm high, which makes stepping back to ...

Casson Mann designed the interior of this new cave art museum in France ... where prehistoric paintings were discovered in 1940. The caves in France's Dordogne region remained opened to visitors ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...

Here’s why South Dakota is the ‘undisputed queen of maze caves’ in the U.S. Here’s why South Dakota is the ‘undisputed queen of maze caves’ in the U.S. This 45,500-year-old pig ...

But the researchers were unable to date the art due to a lack of organic matter. So when, in 2007, the team discovered a large block of limestone with paintings of what look like a female’s vulva that ...