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

A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

A remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory experience" thanks to their special acoustic properties, a study has revealed.

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

On an idyllic tropical island, archaeologists have found a cave wall that's been carefully adorned with pigment in an oddly ...

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...

Aboriginal rock art on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station, Australia (photo by Graeme Churchard/Wikimedia) Australia’s Aboriginal cave art is at risk of disappearance within 50 years, ...

"The Melun Diptych" (circa 1455) by Jean Fouquet in an exhibition at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany. Since ancient times, people working in the fields occasionally stumbled over strange-looking ...

The rock art around Babine Lake in the Canadian province of British Columbia positively pops with a startling red hue. It’s hard to believe that the more than 150 rock paintings have remained so ...

Researchers performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting site and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats, are also ...