Archaeologists in Spain have discovered prehistoric paintings in hard-to-reach caves in the east of the country using drone technology. The use of drones allowed researchers to quickly gather evidence ...

Deep inside a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a single human handprint has pushed the story of art back to at least 67,800 years ago. The stencilled outline, created when someone ...

This 'negative hand,' which researchers have dated to at least 67,800 years ago, is now the oldest known example of cave ...

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 ...

On a September day in 1940 while much of Europe was engulfed in war, four teenagers were walking through a forest in southern France when their dog fell down a hole. As they called for it they heard ...

For the past 40 years, hiking rugged terrain has been a necessary part of research for archeologists at University of Alicante. The mountains around Alicante and Valencia teem with prehistoric cave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Partly flooded chamber which contains most of the parietal motifs. Archaeologists have discovered more than 110 prehistoric cave ...

At Galleri Urbane, Drea Cofield and Erika Jaeggli explore how humans have depicted themselves and their world, from ancient artists to the digital age.

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie that ...