Scientists have discovered a painting of three human figures surrounding a large pig in a cave on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Using a new technique where a laser nips off several tiny pieces ...

For tens of thousands of years, prehistoric paintings have survived in the caves of Sulawesi, an Indonesian island, offering an invaluable record of early humanity’s creative impulses. Now, those ...

In September of 1940, a 18-year-old young man called Marcel Ravidat discovered a cave thanks to his dog. What started as a simple moment in the forest ended ...

In early 2018, a group of scientists published a report positing that a series of cave paintings on the Iberian Peninsula were created 64,000 years ago, which would make the paintings the oldest ...

In a hidden valley on an Indonesian island, there is a cave decorated with what may be the oldest figurative art ever glimpsed by modern eyes. The vivid depiction of a wild pig, outlined and filled in ...

Hand stencil in a cave in Indonesia, dated to at least 39,900 years old (photo by Kinza Riza, via Nature.com) New dating of rock art in Indonesia shows that at the same time stampedes of bulls and ...

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 ...

Dating back some 40,000 years, cave paintings are among the greatest and most fascinating discoveries of human culture. Found all over the world, including more than 300 in Europe alone, cave ...

An international team of researchers claims to have dated mysterious cave art in Borneo—a southeast Asian island that is the third largest in the world—to as early as 40,000 years ago, placing the ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum debuts “Nick Cave: Mammoth,” a monumental new body of work by internationally acclaimed artist Nick Cave today, Feb. 13. Commissioned by the museum, “Mammoth” marks ...