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

Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and figures that appear to predate our own species. The latest discoveries ...

Archaeologists discovered rare paintings, showing Helen of Troy and other Greek figures, in the lost Roman city of Pompeii 2000 years after the deadly volcanic eruption. The paintings were revealed on ...

Deep inside a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a single human handprint has pushed the story of art back ...

If you are interested in the history of humanity, it undoubtedly leads you back to the period when Neanderthals lived. Unfortunately, little is known about how these early humans lived in this era.

On a late August afternoon at BC’s McMullen Museum of Art, professors of art history Stephanie Leone and John Lansdowne ’07 were studying a thirteenth-century painting of the Madonna and child, ...