On January 21, 2026, in Sulawesi, Indonesia, scientists confirmed a cave hand stencil as the oldest known rock art ever ...

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

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying ...

An ancient handprint discovered in an Indonesian cave, dated at least 67,800 years old, may be the world's oldest rock art.

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

Faint ochre outlines of hands thought to be at least 67,800 years old are the oldest rock art yet discovered. Archaeologists ...

Though it now exists only as a centimeters-wide fragment, the stencil is a landmark find.

The world’s oldest surviving rock art is a faded outline of a hand on an Indonesian cave wall, left 67,800 years ago.

Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ancient supercontinent. More than 800 million years ago, tectonic rifting ...

Handprints on the walls of Indonesian caves may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back at least 67,800 years. The ...

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. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...