The oldest known cave painting on Earth is not a charging bison in Europe but a reddish pig on a limestone wall in Indonesia, part of a vivid scene that pushes the origins of storytelling far deeper ...

If you are interested in the history of humanity, it undoubtedly leads you back to the period when Neanderthals lived. Unfortunately, little is known about how these early humans lived in this era.

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 ...

A set of mysterious grooves on a cave floor in France has turned out to be far more than abstract art. Archaeologists now ...

The finding, which was published in Nature, may provide insight into the origins of humanity’s use of symbols, which laid the foundation for language, mathematics and civilization. p pulse Follow Nine ...

Panel 78 in La Pasiega cave, which includes red horizontal and vertical lines that date to more than 64,000 years ago, long before Homo sapiens arrived in the area (photo by C.D Standish, A.W.G. Pike ...

The walls of Chauvet cave, in France, teem with horses, rhinos, reindeer and bison. Most studies of European cave art use carbon in charcoal to determine dates. Chauvet’s art has been dated to be ...

A replica of the pre-historic Decorated Cave of Pont-d'Arc, containing the world's earliest known art and recently named a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The city of Marbella on Spain’s Costa del Sol may be best known for pristine beaches and package holidays, but a recently announced discovery at the Coto Correa archaeological site is a reminder that ...