The oldest representation of the night sky and our Milky Way galaxy was found in an Egyptian sarcophagus, revealing ancient ...

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed a 43,000-year-old pebble bearing a Neanderthal fingerprint, potentially the oldest ...

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An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

In the depths of the San Lázaro rock-shelter in Segovia, Central Spain, archaeologists from the Complutense University of ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered the world’s oldest known human fingerprint left by a Neanderthal over 43,000 years ago ...

The event kicks off this week with 20 site-specific commissions from artists all over the world — and notably for a public ...

An Indonesian spelunker named Hamrullah was exploring the grounds of a concrete plant on the island of Sulawesi in 2017 when he spotted the unassuming hole in the limestone high above his head.

A 45,500-year-old cave painting of a wild pig found in Indonesia is considered the oldest known figurative art. This discovery challenges the belief that the origins of art lie in the West ...

1), was dated to a minimum of 51,200 years ago and is therefore Homo sapiens’ oldest known cave painting. Compared with previous methods, our approach offers faster, less-destructive and more ...

Credit: Dr. Izzy Wisher. Courtesy of the Gobierno de Cantabria. In July, researchers discovered the oldest known cave art. It was found in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, and it shows ...