Cave paintings in Indonesia turned out to be 4,000 years older than thought, making them the world’s oldest known representational artworks. Archaeologists used new techniques to date the images in ...

The work of other artists didn't often reduce Pablo Picasso to a state of utter humility, but that's exactly what happened just after World War II, when he was mucking about in a cave in southwestern ...

Scientists have identified what they believe to be the oldest known rock art in the world inside a cave in Indonesia. ADAM BRUMM: So this is a human hand mark created by blowing paint around a human ...

Several ancient cave paintings were recently discovered along the coast of Spain by researchers using a pioneering new technique. By flying drones into otherwise inaccessible mountain terrain, ...

Cave paintings are so in right now! From Werner Herzog's documentary to the recent discovery of new cave paintings in Spain, primitive art is totally in fashion. These newly uncovered 25,000 year-old ...

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed by ...

Discoveries of detailed cave paintings in Altamira, Spain, were initially rejected by scientists. They believed primitive ...

Archaeologists found three new drawings from tens of thousands of years ago in a Spanish cave. They used a visual technique called stereoscopic photography to see the cave art like never before. The ...

Angel Acosta-Colon (shown here) poses with a number of pictographs, including an unusual find—an animal that looks like a lion. He speculates that this may be the first cave art drawn by slaves that ...