A 45,500-year-old cave painting of a wild pig found in Indonesia is considered the oldest known figurative art. This ...

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 ...

Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest ...

Researchers Discover Paleolithic Cave Art Dated 66,000 Years Ago, Reveal Neanderthals to Be the ‘First Artists' Painting from ...

The new research has pinpointed when some of the first European art that we know of was created. According to the scientists, the earliest cave paintings ... of Southampton, one of the two lead ...

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 ...

Until now, the oldest-known cave painting was one at Leang Tedongnge cave ... "This discovery of very old cave art in Indonesia drives home the point that Europe was not the birthplace of cave ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made centuries ago, has been carved from the wall by looters with an electric saw, archaeologists said. The cave, known as La Cueva Pinta ...

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, the ...