Archaeologists have concluded that a series of engravings discovered on a cave wall in France were made by Neanderthals using their fingers, some 57,000 years ago. They could be the oldest such marks ...

A pig painted on the wall of an Indonesian cave is the world’s oldest figurative art—that is, it’s the oldest known drawing of something, rather than an abstract design or a stencil. The ...

The oldest known cave painting on Earth is not a charging bison in Europe but a reddish pig on a limestone wall in Indonesia, part of a vivid scene that pushes the origins of storytelling far deeper ...

Our team has discovered a cave painting in Indonesia that is at least 44,000 years old and which may cast new light on the beginnings of modern religious culture. This ancient painting from the island ...

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say. It shows a red outline of a hand whose fingers were reworked, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ochre hand stencil found in the jungles of Indonesia is the world’s oldest known cave painting, researchers believe, a finding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researcher Maxime Aubert examines an ancient cave painting in a limestone cave called Liang Metanduno on Muna, a small satellite ...

In limestone caves hidden deep in the jungle of Borneo, archaeologists have discovered the oldest known figurative drawing created by a human artist, dating back at least 40,000 years. The ancient ...

Left: Dirk Hoffmann and Alistair Pike sample calcite from a calcite crust on top of the red scalariform sign in La Pasiega.Right: Drawing of Panel 78 in La Pasiega by Breuil et al.(1913). The red ...

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 ...

The scene found in Indonesia shows, among other things, hunters confronting a wild buffalo with ropes and spears. (Adam Brumm | Nature) Scientists say they have found the oldest known figurative ...