A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

What does prehistoric art tell us? Where does art begin? When in prehistoric human life did the drive start that spun poems, painting, and symphonies? It’s not difficult to reason from what we seem to ...

On a humid island at the edge of Asia, a single human hand pressed against stone has reached across 67,800 years to meet our gaze. The newly dated stencil, sprayed in red pigment on a cave wall in ...

An amateur archaeologist has decoded what experts describe as "the first known writing in the history of Homo sapiens." The inscriptions that Bacon, 67, decoded date back tens of thousands of years.

The collection of cave art suggests that Sulawesi hosted 'a vibrant and long-standing artistic culture' during the late Stone ...

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 ...

“Messages from the Stone Age”, about hand stencils found in caves and early human culture, brings to mind 16,500-year-old cave paintings in Lascaux, France. These are said to show the constellation ...

Czech scientists have discovered a rare Ice Age engraving of a horse in a cave in the Moravian Karst, dating back about ...

This is an example of stone age writing which an amateur archaeologist was the first to decodeWikicommons An amateur archaeologist has decoded what experts describe as "the first known writing in the ...