The Ice Age people who practiced cannibalism in a Polish cave came from the same stock as those who painted the exquisite art ...

Some of the paintings were found to be over 45,500 years old, predating the famous Lascaux and Chauvet cave paintings by several thousand years. Now, a new study in the journal Nature suggests ...

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 years. The 895 paintings were found by Argentine and Chilean ...

The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and Chauvet in France and at Altamira in Spain remains elusive. But scientists conclude that this art, some of it brilliant ...

Carbon 14 has made it possible for the first time to date exactly when the cave paintings of the caves of Borbón or Pomier, ...

Maria explored deep inside the cave using just a candle to light her way. Then, holding her candle aloft, she discovered something that no-one had seen for a very, very long time…paintings on ...

This was also in accord with the age of pottery fragments ancient artists left in the cave. The problem is seeing the paintings. The cave ceiling is only 60cm high, which makes stepping back to ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...

Here’s why South Dakota is the ‘undisputed queen of maze caves’ in the U.S. Here’s why South Dakota is the ‘undisputed queen of maze caves’ in the U.S. This 45,500-year-old pig ...