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

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make ...

Cave art has mesmerized people for so long, but a talented creator has turned New Mexico's underground into settings for ...

From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

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 ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made ... A concerned citizen who notified the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), a federal government agency ...

The World Heritage site of Chauvet Cave in southern France is famous—and a source of both wonder and controversy—for having the world’s oldest cave paintings. When the cave was discovered in ...

Explore the 9 oldest-known archaeological sites, from Theopetra Cave to Göbekli Tepe, and Altamira. Dive into early human history and fascinating cave art.

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 ...

Until now, the oldest-known cave painting was one at Leang ... that storytelling was a much older part of human history, and the history of art in particular, than previously recognized," Brumm ...

Then, holding her candle aloft, she discovered something that no-one had seen for a very, very long time…paintings on the ceiling of the cave that dated from pre-history. 3. The video Play the ...

On the walls were innumerable paintings, many of them of large size, which were soon recognized as being palæolithic. Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies ...