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 ...

Oldest Known Neanderthal Engravings Were Sealed in a Cave for 57,000 Years The art was created long before modern humans inhabited France’s Loire Valley ...

It’s among more than a dozen other dated cave paintings on Sulawesi that now rival the earliest cave art in Spain and France, long ... same time. Representational ... years ago. Could some of ...

Whether the art depicts a hunt or some other event, it’s likely the oldest known story told through pictures, the researchers say. The mural dates back at least 44,000 years, which makes it ...

The Lascaux cave paintings are some of the most recognizable cave art. They were found in the Dordogne region of France in 1940 by four teenagers. The art, which is thought to have been made around 20 ...

Previous research had pegged the time of its construction to around 3,500-3,000 years ago. But now experts believe that it ...

The 1.6-kilometre (mile-long) cave has more than 1,000 carved figures, both animals and stylised feminine forms. Scientists ...

Then, around 10,000 years ago, the area became more arid and hostile as a result of climatic shifts. The archaeological record in the cave likewise dried up for the next several thousand years ...

For a long time, archaeologists thought only H. sapiens were intellectually developed enough to make, use and appreciate art, which they tended to equate with symbolism.

[Related: Neanderthals were likely creating art 57,000 years ago. The team dates the drawings to between 1670 to 1830 CE, which corresponds with a time of increasing conflict in the region .

Four and a half centuries have passed since Roman archaeologists uncovered the famed Laocoön sculpture, a huge, powerful work of marble showing the death of a Trojan priest and his two sons ...

The 1.6-kilometre (mile-long) cave has more than 1,000 carved figures, both animals and stylised feminine forms. Scientists have dated them to between 26,000 and 35,000 years ago, the time of the ...