To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they have ...

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 ...

On an idyllic tropical island, archaeologists have found a cave wall that's been carefully adorned with pigment in an oddly ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

New research is shaking up our image of art-making in Paleolithic times, arguing that children or even toddlers may have been behind some of world’s earliest known art. The findings suggest that ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis regarding an intriguing question: Why did ancient humans bring their young ...

A prehistoric painting in Indonesia has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the earliest known example of "figurative" cave art in the world and perhaps the oldest known surviving ...

The hunters are decked out with animal snouts and tails. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers discovered cave paintings ...