Grace, aged nine, Belfast, UK Before we can answer this question, we need to think about another one: “what is art?” Art is ...

Up a rocky cliff face, through a narrow opening, and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting that archaeologists say is the world’s oldest known example of storytelling in art history. Located ...

Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave ...

In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...

Pittsburgh, Pa., USA: In the karstic caves of Puerto Rico, cave art paints the rock walls. Previous research has assigned ages to this art based on the ages of nearby archaeological artifacts within ...

Discovering any collection of Paleolithic art is rare, says Aitor Ruiz-Redondo, an archaeologist and senior lecturer at the University of Zaragoza in Spain: Only about 400 such sites have been found ...

A cave in Patagonia houses the oldest known pigment-based rock art in South America. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A gallery's ...

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 ...

Newly deciphered drawings in the Gua Sireh Cave show the Bidayuh Indigenous people’s violent struggle against their oppressors, researchers say. Two charcoal drawings from 1670 to 1830 correspond with ...

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