Until a few years ago, the oldest known figurative cave painting was a 21,000-year-old rock art panel in Lascaux, France, showing a bird-headed human charging a bison. But in 2019, archaeologists ...

The site is somewhat of a hot spot for significant cave painting discoveries. Previous finds on Sulawesi in recent years were dated to between 40,000 and 44,000 years old, which was then the ...

A painting discovered on the wall of an Indonesian cave has been found to be 44,000 years old. The art appears to show a buffalo being hunted by part-human, part-animal creatures holding spears ...

In South Africa, a hashtag-like doodle created 73,000 years ago is believed to be the oldest known drawing. Cave paintings as old as those found in Europe have been found in Indonesia, raising new ...

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 ...

San rock paintings in South Africa likely depict extinct dicynodonts, showcasing early local engagement in paleontology ...

Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest ...

VICHY, France (UP) -- Three children playing "police and gangsters" in a cave in the Montignac region have discovered carved and painted hunting scenes by cavemen who lived 30,000 years ago ...

Themes: Inspirational children; curiosity; having the courage to ask questions. Summary: This assembly focuses on the extraordinary discovery made by Maria de Sautuola when she was just eight ...

The next you are seeing the paintings ... cave called Vogelherd. They display a grace and beauty and playfulness that would make any artist today proud. Yet they are 40,000 years old—predating ...