It’s 100 degrees and the Arizona sun is beating down, sweat dripping down the faces of visitors. With camera in one hand and a water bottle in the other, guests walk up the stairs leading to Colossal ...

A newly discovered series of cave drawings is changing the way scientists think about Neanderthals, and could help to change some long-held beliefs about how one long-dead branch of our own family ...

CAMBRIDGE, Ohio — The angel at the trailhead is a sobering sight. The unusual marker sits at the trail that leads to Hosak’s Cave at Salt Fork State Park in Guernsey County in east-central Ohio. The ...

(CNN) — 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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This composite image from the book "Borneo, Memory of the Caves" shows the world's oldest figurative artwork dated to a minimum of ...

45,500 years is a long, long time. It is nearly 23 times as long as the distance between the point at which you are reading this article and the birth of Jesus Christ. It is roughly 9 times as long as ...

Oregon’s Paisley Caves and a nearby rockshelter have led archaeologists to rethink when humans first reached North America. Evidence from ancient human waste, stone tools, and markings appears much ...

It looks a bit like a hashtag, but it’s 73,000 years old. And scientists say this tiny sketch found in a South African cave is the oldest known drawing. It’s not the earliest deliberate design; some ...

Several years ago, there was a jovial debate why Chris Messina, a former Google designer who proposed Twitter use the hashtag to sort topics, did not patent the idea and make millions off it – it ...

Cave Creek artist Dick Mueller will unveil what he believes to be the world’s largest colored pencil drawing – 4 feet by 8 feet – June 13 at Nickel Creek Gallery in Cave Creek. Mueller has applied to ...