Amid the Second World War, four young boys unearthed a Paleolithic masterpiece when they stumbled upon a cave in southwest ...

The cave is cramped and awkward ... Alongside these are red (and occasionally purplish-black) paintings that look very different: hand stencils and animals, including the babirusa in Leang ...

These paintings were the oldest dated cave paintings in the world and included mainly red and black paintings. There were images of various animals, linear signs, geometric shapes, hand stencils ...

Cova Dones, the cave in question, lies close to Spain’s eastern coast in Valencia, whereas most of the country’s ancient art—including the famous prehistoric cave paintings of Altamira—is ...

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ... Rocks were ground up to make pigments -- black and ochre were the main ones -- which were then sometimes applied to ...

Why would prehistoric humans carry their youngest children deep into the winding, pitch-black recesses of ancient caves?