Ratno SardiScientists have determined a cave painting depicting what looks to be a hunting scene is more than 44,000 years ...

Artworks that feature the presence of UFOs or abnormal-looking objects and creatures have existed even before Christ was born ...

Or that competition with Neanderthals, present in Europe until around 25,000 years ago, pushed modern humans to express their identity by painting on cave walls—ancient hominin flag-planting.

New research from Tel Aviv University suggests prehistoric children were joint creators of European cave art, fulfilling a ...

Study shows prehistoric children may have participated in cave art because they were considered mediators between the ...

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make ...

# Ajanta Caves Paintings, Maharashtra The Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, house some of the ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...

A partly faded clay painting of a horse’s head. A Ruiz-Redondo/V Barciela/X Martorell Cova Dones is a karstic cave, Ruiz-Redondo says, meaning its walls and standing water are rich in calcium ...

Why did ancient humans bring their young children to cave-painting sites—deep underground—through dark, meandering, hazardous passages? The researchers explain, "Next to many cave paintings ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...