Evidence from caves in France and Spain shows Neanderthals made symbolic art long before Homo sapiens, reshaping ideas about ...

The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed an installation evoking the ancient Roman ...

Here’s something to shut you off in mid-scroll: deliberate cave paintings in France have just been dated back at least 57,000 ...

Jordan Moller, a local artist who spends his professional life "digging holes" is turning his academic rigor on the ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

Dunbar Cave, home of numerous petroglyphs and pictographs dating back at least 800 years, was submerged by a flood in ...

Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings. Digital model of La Pileta cave Cueva de la Pileta is a cave in ...

At least 14,000 years ago, artists took to Altamira cave in Spain with charcoal and red pigments, painting bison, deer and their own handprints on the rock walls and ceiling. This prehistoric art ...

Red disks, hand stencils and club-shaped drawings lining the walls of several Stone Age caves in Spain were painted so long ago that Neandertals might have been their makers, say researchers armed ...

Reporting in Science, researchers write that a red disk painted in Spain's El Castillo cave is at least 40,800 years old—making it the oldest known European cave art. Archaeologist Alistair Pike ...