Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated ...

(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.

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 ...

Maxime Aubert can only imagine who might have painted the ocher-colored creature onto the cave’s limestone walls. He can merely speculate about what the image may have meant to the person who created ...

Listen to Universe of Art on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn or your favorite podcasting app. In July, researchers discovered the oldest known cave art. It was found in a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prehistoric paintings at least 40,000 years old that depict animals - including one known as a "pig-deer" - and the outline of human hands in seven caves on the Indonesian ...

New research has found that cave art in Patagonia’s Cueva Huenul 1 cave is several thousand years older than expected, and is now the oldest known artwork in the region. The rock art had previously ...