Inside a limestone cave on Indonesia's island of Sulawesi is a sacred slice of history. Apainting of humans with animal characteristics hunting is believed to be the oldest cave painting, dating back ...

A pig painting inside an Indonesian cave has been dated to 43,900 years old, making it among the oldest—if not the oldest—known figurative art piece in the archaeological record. The painting was ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated ...

A cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi may be the oldest evidence of narrative art ever discovered, researchers say. The artwork, which depicts a human-like figure interacting with a ...

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, is ...

Dots, lines, and symbols found beside Ice Age cave paintings have puzzled archaeologists for decades. New research suggests ...

WASHINGTON-- Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of an Indonesian cave. The sketch is at least 40,000 years old, ...

The imagery shifts our understanding of when and where humans started depicting imaginary figures. A researcher studying what was previously believed to be the world's oldest figurative art in a ...

The intricate hunting scene details human-like figures pursuing a buffalo. Archaeologists have discovered what they say is the earliest figurative painting known to man, in a cave in Indonesia. It ...

For years, it has been generally been believed that the oldest cave paintings could be found in Europe. But on Wednesday, December 11, a new study published in Nature announced that there were older ...

Dating back some 40,000 years, cave paintings are among the greatest and most fascinating discoveries of human culture. Found all over the world, including more than 300 in Europe alone, cave ...