Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings. Digital model of La Pileta cave Cueva de la Pileta is a cave in ...

Sixty-eight thousand years ago, in the humid dark of a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Muna, a human being pressed their hand against the cold wall. They took a mouthful of red pigment and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers ...

Handprints on the walls of Indonesian caves may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back at least 67,800 years.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many millennia ago, in what is now the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, humans ground up some pigment and daubed pigs and people on ...

For the past 40 years, hiking rugged terrain has been a necessary part of research for archeologists at University of Alicante. The mountains around Alicante and Valencia teem with prehistoric cave ...

“Mammoth,” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is a self-portrait through sculpture, video, photography and more. And it lives up to its name.

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made centuries ago, has been carved from the wall by looters with an electric saw, archaeologists said. The cave, known as La Cueva Pinta, is ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "major" Paleolithic cave art site in Spain that contains more than a hundred individual designs. The collection of prehistoric paintings and engravings is thought to ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. Cosquer cave is a beautiful display of ...

Archaeologist David Whitley has studied some of the most ancient sites and art works created by prehistoric human beings. In his new book, Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit: The Origin of Creativity ...

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 ...