Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Lascaux Cave in France is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The hand stencil was likely created by a population that is closely linked to the ancestors of Indigenous Australians. The cave ...

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

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of the murals were plundered by foreign expeditioners and scattered across the world. Zhao Li, a research fellow at the Kizil Caves Research Institute ...

A mysterious rock painting in South Africa’s cave could be the first-ever artwork of an animal that disappeared 250 million years ago. The San people’s “Horned Serpent Panel” features a strange ...

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

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 ...

On September 12, 1940,an 18-year-old mechanic’s apprentice named Marcel Ravidat followed his dog Robot into a hole near a ...

A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox for free every month. Well, it’s possible that we actually did make art ...