The site is somewhat of a hot spot for significant cave painting discoveries. Previous finds on Sulawesi in recent years were dated to between 40,000 and 44,000 years old, which was then the ...

Until a few years ago, the oldest known figurative cave painting was a 21,000-year-old rock art panel in Lascaux, France, showing a bird-headed human charging a bison. But in 2019, archaeologists ...

Archaeologists keep finding older and older cave art. Here’s what it could tell us about how humans evolved over time.

A painting discovered on the wall of an Indonesian cave has been found to be 44,000 years old. The art appears to show a buffalo being hunted by part-human, part-animal creatures holding spears ...

Cops are investigating the defacement of a 6,000-year-old cave painting in southern Spain. According to authorities, the ancient evidence of the human drive to create was damaged when a local man ...

In South Africa, a hashtag-like doodle created 73,000 years ago is believed to be the oldest known drawing. Cave paintings as old as those found in Europe have been found in Indonesia, raising new ...

A man has sparked outrage in Spain after allegedly washing 6,000-year-old cave paintings so he could take better pictures to upload to his Facebook page. The shocking incident happened at various ...

Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest ...

Spanish authorities are investigating a man who allegedly damaged cave paintings that are thousands of years old by pouring water on them in order to take better photos for social media. A 39-year ...

which were sketched in the country’s Sierra Sur de Jaén mountain range thousands of years ago, local law enforcement said. A tourist tossed water on centuries-old cave paintings to get better ...

Accretions in the cave push back the bridge's construction by over 1,000 years, raising questions about migration onto the ...