Looking back on art, we might as well start from the beginning. We know in France, in the dark wombs of mountains, there are ...

A mysterious rock painting in South Africa’s cave could be the first-ever artwork of an animal that disappeared 250 million years ago. The San people’s “Horned Serpent Panel” features a strange ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

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 ...

Researchers had long assumed the art inside Font-de-Gaume in France was made with pigments that couldn't be analyzed using ...

On September 12, 1940, a dog in France stumbled upon one of the most remarkable archaeological finds of the 20th century. The ...

A faded outline of a human hand found on a cave wall in Indonesia may officially be the oldest known rock art in the world, according to archaeologists who say it was created at least 67,800 years ago ...

A stencil made on a cave wall about 67,800 years ago is the oldest rock art ever discovered. “This image of a hand was created by someone placing their hand against the wall and then spraying a ...

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southeastern France. For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant, including ...

Located in the Southern Ural Mountains of Bashkortostan, the Shulgan-Tash Cave contains extensive Late Palaeolithic rock art. Set within a karst massif near the Belaya and Shulgan Rivers, it features ...