New dating of pigments reveals that cave paintings in the Lower Pecos region of Texas could be nearly 6,000 years old.

ARDALES, Spain, Aug 8 – Neanderthals may have been closer to our species of prehistoric modern human than previously believed after cave paintings found in Spain proved they had a fondness for ...

For tens of thousands of years, prehistoric paintings have survived in the caves of Sulawesi, an Indonesian island, offering an invaluable record of early humanity’s creative impulses. Now, those ...

Inside a limestone cave on Indonesia's island of Sulawesi is a sacred slice of history. Apainting of humans with animal characteristics hunting is believed to be the oldest cave painting, dating back ...

For decades, the story of art was simple: humans arrived, creativity followed. Cave paintings, symbolic markings, and ...

An archaeologist and a recreational cave explorer recently discovered at least 70 ancient cave paintings in the Atxurra caves in northern Spain. Although a team located the caves in 1929, the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Prehistoric cave paintings so fragile they're sealed from human view are coming to the Field Museum of Natural History in replica next March. Yves Coppens, chairman of the Lascaux Cave ...

An 18-year-student, with his dog stumbled upon a hole in 1940. It turned out to be an ancient trove of never-before-seen ...

Ancient cave decorations can be breathtaking to behold, but new research claims the artists may have been starved of oxygen when they were painting. Analyzing cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic ...

When archaeologists tried out a new technique to determine the age of Spain's most famous Paleolithic cave paintings, they were surprised to discover that the paintings were thousands of years older ...

The world’s earliest-known cave painting of an animal has been discovered on Borneo in Indonesia. It dates back to at least 40,000 years ago, a new study says. The drawing is even older than the ...