The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago.

It really just shows how long people have been making rock art in that part of the world,” an archaeology professor said of ...

The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

A MYSTERIOUS shrine used by ancient Roman cultists has been found alongside a pair “elite” tombs plundered after burial. The ...

British archaeologist Howard Carter uncovered Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 but has faced rumours ...

A faded outline of a human hand on a cave wall in Indonesia could now be the world’s oldest known rock art, according to ...

Rock art found in Indonesia dates to at least 67,800 years ago, representing the earliest known cave art made by humans.

The bones are tangled and entwined, as though the bodies were thrown or rolled on top of each other. Archaeologists have ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

The "fancy grave goods" confirmed what they had already suspected thanks to the horse - it was a high status burial. These ...