Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

In the last five years, 3 of the 4 oldest cave artworks ever found on Earth were identified on the same small island off ...

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

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

The recent discovery of rock art in a cave in Indonesia might signify more than just our ancestors’ artistic ability. The art ...

The handprints dotting the walls of an Indonesian cave had tapered fingertips, and the team found the prints were nearly ...

Newly discovered rock art sites in Sulawesi, Indonesia, that date to nearly 68,000 years ago are thought to be the oldest ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

Archaeologists have identified a hand stencil in a cave on Muna Island as potentially the world’s oldest known rock art, ...

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...