Recent archaeological discoveries are challenging established narratives of human origins and creativity. A 64,000-year-old cave art found in Europe is compelling scientists to rethink timelines of ...

Researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest known cave art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Indonesia. The unusual, ...

On September 12, 1940, a dog in France stumbled upon one of the most remarkable archaeological finds of the 20th century. The ...

A new study confirms that ancient cave paintings in France’s Dordogne region were created nearly 16,000 years ago.

After these researchers unexpectedly found carbon-based drawings in the Font-de-Gaume cave, they returned to pinpoint when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researcher Maxime Aubert examines an ancient cave painting in a limestone cave called Liang Metanduno on Muna, a small satellite ...

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed by ...

Indonesia’s vast archipelago is covered with the fingerprints of human history: ancient cave paintings. But on an island just off Sulawesi, archaeologists have now identified the world’s oldest known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Very, very few people have been allowed into the Chauvet cave in Southeastern France since it was discovered in 1994 and found to ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When writing headlines for stories about human evolution, ...

"A revised edition of a classic title, now with digitally restored photographs, showcasing the finest surviving examples of ancient Buddhist art. Since their chance rediscovery in 1819, the ...