France’s Font-de-Gaume cave is brimming with prehistoric artwork depicting bison, horses, reindeer, mammoths and other creatures. Now, for the first time, scientists have determined when some of these ...

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 ...

NEUQUEN, Argentina, March 7 (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 years. The 895 paintings were found ...

A cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi may be the oldest evidence of narrative art ever discovered, researchers say. The artwork, which depicts a human-like figure interacting with a ...

For the past 40 years, hiking rugged terrain has been a necessary part of research for archeologists at University of Alicante. The mountains around Alicante and Valencia teem with prehistoric cave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have discovered what may be the world's oldest cave art. Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of ...

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 ...

Hand stencil in a cave in Indonesia, dated to at least 39,900 years old (photo by Kinza Riza, via Nature.com) New dating of rock art in Indonesia shows that at the same time stampedes of bulls and ...

The man doused the paintings to make them clearer for photos he wanted to share on Facebook. Jaén Province, Spain, Andalucia. In 1998, UNESCO declared a total of 69 sites of prehistoric rock art in ...

A new study confirms that ancient cave paintings in France’s Dordogne region were created nearly 16,000 years ago.