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

This composite image from the book “Borneo, Memory of the Caves” shows the world’s oldest figurative artwork dated to a minimum of 40,000 years, in a limestone cave in the Indonesian part of the ...

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

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

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Archaeologists in Spain have discovered prehistoric paintings in hard-to-reach caves in the east of the country using drone technology. The use of drones allowed researchers to quickly gather evidence ...

A team of cave explorers discovered a prehistoric mural depicting animals and stars in northeastern Spain. Photo from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution A rare and ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "major" Paleolithic cave art site in Spain that contains more than a hundred individual designs. The collection of prehistoric paintings and engravings is thought to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Lascaux Cave in France is one of many with Stone Age rock art. | Credit: Pictures from History ...

Stone Age people living in Europe 20,000 years ago may have devised a simple form of writing to record the habits of the animals they hunted, according to a study of mysterious symbols on artefacts ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Tennesseans have been fascinated by caves for centuries. And long before that, when Native Americans inhabited the rolling landscape, they too traversed the deep dark rock ...